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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