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Title

Lengua mayá de Yucatan

Authors

• Berendt, C. Hermann 1817-1878

Other related names

• Brinton, Daniel Garrison, 1837-1899, former owner

Call number

Ms. Coll. 700 Item 203
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9941660863503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/166253267
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4166086

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Itzá, Lacandon, and Yucatan dialects of Maya, with brief notes in Spanish and German

Origin

Date

1866-1868?

Place

Petén, Guatemala, and Mérida, Mexico?

Summary

Notes on the Maya language as spoken in the Yucatan, with specific references to the Itzá (Petén) and Lacandon dialects spoken in Guatemala, followed by a collection of texts of songs in the Maya language, written in Mérida in 1868.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• 7 leaves that were loose or pasted to other leaves, including a sheet of notated music pasted inside the lower cover, have been removed and are shelved with the manuscript.
   

Extent

32 leaves : 180 x 122 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, 32; [ii], 53, [54-62]; pages 28-43 and [57-59] are blank, as are 14 leaves at the end of the volume; contemporary pagination in ink through 53, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Late 19th-century cardboard.

Script

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, f. 1r).
   

Subjects topical

• Itzá dialect
• Lacandon dialect
• Mayan languages
• Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Languages
• Indians of Mexico--Languages

Genres

• Codices
• Songs
• Manuscripts, Spanish--19th century
• Manuscripts, Mexican--19th century

Licenses

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