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Title

Annotations

Authors

• Berendt, C. Hermann 1817-1878
• Rosny, Léon de, 1837-1914

Other related names

• Berendt, C. Hermann 1817-1878, former owner
• Brinton, Daniel Garrison, 1837-1899, former owner

Call number

Ms. Coll. 700 Item 15
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9946114773503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/456547847
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4611477

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

French, English, and German, with Maya examples and vocabulary

Origin

Date

ca. 1875

Summary

Published copy of Léon de Rosny's L'interprétation des anciens textes mayas (Paris: Gustave Bossange, 1875), with numerous annotations and corrections by C. Hermann Berendt throughout the text. Rosny's work includes an overview of Mayan grammar (p. 13-34), selected texts with translations (p. 35-46), and a Maya-French vocabulary (p. 47-70), followed by book advertisements (Bulletin de Publicité orientale et américaine; 16 p.) and a statement about the Société américaine de France (8 p.). On one of the tipped-in leaves (front free endpaper), Berendt provides an overview of his evaluation of the first 5 columns of Rosny's vocabulary (Die 5 ersten Spalten v. Rosnys "Vocabulaire M.-Fr."), categorizing those 133 entries under headings such as: correct word, correct meaning; or: correct word, incorrect meaning. Additional entries from the 6th column are made in red ink, up to 163.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger; title for book on printed title page (p. [3]) is L'interprétation des anciens textes mayas.
   

Extent

48 leaves : 211 x 131 mm. bound to 215 x 138 mm

Foliation

Paper, ii + 48 + ii leaves; [1-5], 6-70, [71-73], [1-2], 3-16, [1-3], 4-8. Varying-sized leaves of notepaper tipped in as follows: 2 on inside upper cover; 3 on recto of front free endpaper; 1 on recto of final back free endpaper.

Support

Paper

Binding

Late 19th-century quarter calf over marbled boards; partial split between front pastedown and front free endpaper.

Script

Annotations written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.

Provenance

• From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).
   

Subjects topical

• Mayan languages--Writing
• Mayan languages--Grammar
• Maya language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Languages
• Indians of Central America--Belize--Languages
• Indians of Mexico--Languages

Genres

• Translations (documents)
• Glossaries
• Manuscripts, French--19th century

Licenses

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