Vocabulario en lengua tzeldal iuxta ussu[m] oppidii de Copanabastla

Description
Early 17th-century revision of Domingo de Ara's 16th-century Spanish-Tzeltal dictionary.
Creator
Guzman, Alonso de
Form
manuscripts (documents)
codices (bound manuscripts)
glossaries
Manuscripts, Mexican
Manuscripts, Spanish
controlled vocabularies
Date
1620
Language
Spanish; Castilian
Mayan languages
Subject
Tzeltal language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Mayan languages -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Indians of Mexico -- Languages -- Early works to 1800
Language and languages
Indians of Mexico -- Languages
Mayan languages
Tzeltal language
Geographic Subject
Mexico -- Languages -- Early works to 1800
Mexico
Collection
Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection
Extent
221 leaves : paper ; 208 x 142 mm bound to 220 x 164 mm
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from caption title page (f. 2r); the name Copanabastla also appears in other sources as Copanahuaxtla and Copanaguastla. A note on previous page states, "De licentia sui prelati ad usum habet Fray Alonso de Guzman, Traslado este bocabulario el sobre dicho P[adr]e el año de 1620 años en la provinçia de los tzeldales en el pueblo de Taquinvitz" (f. 1r).
A manuscript of Domingo de Ara's Vocabulario de la lengua española y tzeldal, the model for Guzman's work, is also in this collection (Ms. Coll. 700, Item 185).
Foliation: Paper, 221; [2-5], 6-109, 109-181, 183-222; contemporary pagination in ink, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 29-32 long lines; alphabet letters as running title.
Binding: Late 19th-century half leather.
Origin: Written in the Mexican state of Chiapas in 1620.
Spanish and Tzeltal.
Related works
Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3g15tm7z
Also listed in
Penn Libraries Catalog
Physical Location
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 700 Item 184
Provenance
A note pasted to the flyleaves of Item 185 suggests that this volume, together with Item 185, passed through the collections of the abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg, A. L. Pinart, and Eugène Boban before Daniel Garrison Brinton purchased it separately from the Berendt collection. Unlike Item 185, this volume does not have a bookplate from the library of Brasseur de Bourbourg.
From the collection of Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).
Brasseur de Bourbourg, abbé, 1814-1874, former owner.
Pinart, A. L. (Alphonse Louis), 1852-1911, former owner.
Boban, Eugène, former owner.
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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