Vocabulario de la lengua pocomam compilado de Gage y Scherzer
- Description
- A list of approximately 190 Spanish words grouped by subject, with approximately 140 Pokomam equivalents from Karl Scherzer's Sprachen der Indianer Central-Amerikas; Sprache der Indianer von Palin (Vienna, 1855) and 75 Pokomam equivalents from Thomas Gage's The English-American, his travels by sea and land; or a new survey of the West Indies (London, 1648). An introduction (p. 3-6) discusses the relationship between Pokomam and Pokonchi and lists communities in Guatemala speaking the two languages.
- Creator
- Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878
- Gage, Thomas, 1603?-1656
- Scherzer, Karl, Ritter von, 1821-1903
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- glossaries
- Manuscripts, Spanish
- controlled vocabularies
- Date
- 1867
- Language
- Spanish; Castilian
- Mayan languages
- Subject
- Pokomam language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
- Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Languages
- Indians of Central America
- Pokomam language
- Language and languages
- Geographic Subject
- Guatemala
- Guatemala -- Languages
- Collection
- Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection
- Extent
- 10 leaves : paper ; 204 x 140 (155 x 110) mm
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (f. 2r).
- Pagination: Paper, 10 f. ; pagination in ink, [ii, 1-3], 4-14, [iv], upper center.
- Layout: Written in three columns of 25 lines, for Spanish, Pokomam words from Gage, and Pokomam words from Scherzer.
- Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
- Binding: Marbled cardboard covers, split at center fold, with paper label on upper cover: Pocomam, Gage y Scherzer, 1640 y 1855.
- Origin: Written in New York in 1867.
- Spanish and Pokomam.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p30r9mj51
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 700 Item 88
- Provenance
- From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).
- Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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