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Title

Arte de lengua cacchi para bien comun

Authors

• Torres, Pedro

Other related names

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

Call number

Ms. Coll. 700 Item 69
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9939665473503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79499066
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3966547

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Spanish and Kekchi

Origin

Date

1875

Place

Coban, Guatemala

Summary

A 19th-century copy of a 1741 grammar for the Kekchi language with corrections suggested by Pedro Torres, an inhabitant of Coban, and added in the margins by C. Hermann Berendt.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 3r); the third character of the word Cacchi is a Parra symbol, which has been transcribed as a c in all later references.
   
• The original from which this copy was made is in this collection as Ms. Coll. 700 Item 68 (ff. 97r-131v).
   

Watermark

Department of State, US.

Extent

54 leaves : 207 x 171 (152 x 120) mm. bound to 213 x 184 mm

Foliation

Paper, 54; [iv, I-III], IV, [1], 2-81, [82-84], 85-96, [iv]; pagination by Berendt in ink, upper center.

Support

Paper

Binding

Late 19th-century half-leather, marbled paper.

Layout

Written in 22 long lines, with corrections and additions written in the margins in red.

Script

In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.

Provenance

• Copied from an original written in San Juan Chameleo in 1741 and held in the parochial archives of Coban, Vera Paz.
   
• From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).
   

Subjects topical

• Kekchi language--Grammar
• Mayan languages--Grammar--Early works to 1800
• Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Languages--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Grammars
• Manuscripts, Spanish--19th century

Licenses

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