Vocabulario de la lengua de los indios del pueblo de Cachi (Costa Rica) / colectado por D[okto]r Lucas Alvarado, Cartago, 1866.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Alvarado, Lucas.

Contributor:

Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878, former owner.

Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.

Language:

Central American Indian (Other)

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Cabecar language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Cabecar language.

Indians of Central America--Costa Rica--Languages.

Indians of Central America.

Language and languages.

Costa Rica--Languages.

Costa Rica.

Genre:

glossaries

Manuscripts, Spanish.

Manuscripts, Latin American.

Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Controlled vocabularies.

Penn Provenance:

From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on the verso of front free endpaper in the bound volume that once contained the present item).

Physical Description:

5 leaves : paper ; 202 x 126 (152 x 105) mm bound to 202 x 126 mm

Contained In:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 151

Other Title:

Cachi (Costa Rica)

Place of Publication:

[between 1866 and 1878]

Language Note:

Spanish and an Indian dialect related to Cabecar (possibly also to Bribri); and a few words in English.

Biography/History:

Graduated from the medical school of the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala in 1843 and settled in in Costa Rica. Alvarado was based in Cartago from at least 1860, and was living there when he communicated with C. Hermann Berendt in 1873.

Summary:

C. Hermann Berendt's transcription of 71 vocabulary entries in Spanish and a language spoken by the Indians in the village of Cachi, in the Orosi valley, in the province of Cartago, Costa Rica. The vocabulary was collected by Lucas Alvarado, apparently in 1866. The language is probably related to Cabecar, or to both Cabecar and Bribri. A note in pencil running vertically along the outer margin of the title page reads: It is the Cabecar dialect of Talamanca and worthless for that. For the manuscript in Alvarado's hand upon which Berendt's transcription is based, see Ms.Coll. 700, Item 150; the latter also includes 2 letters from Alvarado to Berendt, both dated in 1873, and an expanded comparative vocabulary, in which the Cachi words in this manuscript appear under the Spanish heading: común Cachi y Biseita (Viceita); Berendt corrects the heading to read simply: Cachi. In the correspondence in Item 150 Alvarado also refers to the vocabulary as that of the Indians of Orosi (also in Cartago province). The manuscript contains annotations in pencil, including the labeling of some words as: C & B; or simply: B.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (p. 1).

This was the eighteenth of 19 manuscripts formerly bound together, probably by Daniel Garrison Brinton, and now disbound (Items 129-136, 143, 145, 146, 151-155, and 157-159). The bound volume had the spine title: Languages of Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.

Pagination: Paper, ii + 5 + i leaves; [1-5], 6-8, [9, 10 (blank)]; pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Layout: Written in 2 columns, with Spanish on the left and the Indian dialect on the right.

Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.

Binding: Contemporary paper covers; sewn. Gatherings almost detached from each other.

Origin: Written sometime between Alvarado's collection of the vocabulary in 1866 and C. Hermann Berendt's death in 1878.

Cited in:

Described in Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection (Department of Archaeology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania, 1900), p. 29 (no. 151).

Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 631 (no. 8).

Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 68-70 (no. 388, document 18).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 151

OCLC:

557091793