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Title

Lengua maya

Authors

• Berendt, C. Hermann 1817-1878
• Waldeck, Frédéric de, 1766-1875
• Galindo, Juan, 1802-1839
• Ternaux-Compans, Henri, 1807-1864
• Beltrán de Santa Rosa, Pedro
• Brasseur de Bourbourg, abbé, 1814-1874
• Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo, 1478-1557
• San Buenaventura, Gabriel de, fl. 1684
• Ruz, Joaquin, 1772-1870
• Lizana, Bernardo de, 1581-1631
• Salazar Ylarregui, José
• Villanueva, Juan José

Other related names

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

Call number

Ms. Coll. 700 Item 42
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9946352513503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/457911323
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4635251

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Spanish, Maya, Chol (Putum), Itzá dialect (Petén), Cakchikel, Nahuatl, and Otomi (Othomi); with occasional use of French (entry 3), German (notes laid in) , Latin (entry 12), and at least one remark in English (p. 31)

Origin

Date

1864-1868

Place

Providence, R. I. ;
Sacluc, Guatemala ;
Mérida, Mexico ;

Summary

Collection of copies of or extracts from various documents concerning Mayan languages, made by C. Hermann Berendt in a notebook of lined paper. Most of the 18 entries pertain to vocabulary or reproduce texts in one of the languages (especially texts on the Catholic sacraments). This item is the first of 3 volumes; for vols. 2 and 3, see Ms. Coll. 700 Item 43 and Item 44. In the present item, entries are numbered, and a table of contents is included (f. 2r-v). All of the material is handwritten by Berendt, except for entries 17 and 18, which are clippings pasted into the notebook. Entry 17 is a clipping from a broadside (hoja suelta) giving an imperial proclamation dated November 1864 (Jefes y habitantes de Chan Santa Cruz ...) in Spanish and Maya on facing pages (as arranged by Berendt). The clipping of entry 18 (headed: Indios mayas) relates a news item that was reported in the newspaper Diario del Imperio (the source of the clipping itself is not identified). All of the handwritten entries are accompanied by notes on sources, some of which are mentioned in the table of contents. Additional details on sources are often noted at the heads of entries. In some cases, Berendt has combined sources, compared sources against one another, made corrections to the material that he has copied, and/or added his own notes. For instance, in entry 1 he states (p. 1) that he has made corrections to Waldeck's vocabulary from Beltrán, as well as from the Diccionario de Providence (Diccionario de Motul?); in entry 5, he indicates (p.37) that the corrections made to the words in the Petén dialect (also called Itzá) are his own; and in entry 6 he explains that the designation Punctunc or Puctunc for the dialect spoken by the Indians in Palenque and other parts of Chiapas is attributable to a printer's error in the French translation of Galindo, for what should be Putum, and also that he has found it to be the same language as Chol. Several items were laid in: a loose clipping that is another copy of the Spanish version of the imperial proclamation pasted in for entry 17, evidently from a different source (with slight differences); 1 leaf with a few vocabulary words headed: Maya dialecte; and 1 leaf and 1 bifolium with notes in German pertaining to the works of Waldeck and Béltran. The latter 2 items are housed in a separate folder and shelved with the manuscript.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   

Extent

63 leaves : 190 x 122 mm. bound to 192 x 123 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, i + 63 leaves; [i-iv], [1]-89, [90]-91, 90-112, [113], 114-115, 114-115, 118-119, [i]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

19th-century boards, with spine mostly wanting, and old repair with tape tentatively securing covers. Approximately one half of gatherings completely or partially loose, some leaves detached.

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).
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Doctrines
• Catholic Church--Liturgy--Texts
• Confession--Catholic Church
• Sacraments--Catholic Church
• Maya language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Itzá dialect--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Chol language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Cakchikel language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Huastec language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Nahuatl language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Otomi language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Maya language--Texts
• Itzá dialect--Texts
• Mayas--Prophecies
• Indians of Mexico--Languages
• Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Languages
• Indians of Central America--Belize--Languages

Genres

• Calendars
• Glossaries
• Translations (documents)
• Manuscripts, Spanish--19th century
• Manuscripts, Mexican--19th century

Licenses

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