Ms. Coll. 700 Item 77 Coleccion de escritos menores en lengua kekchí de la Verapaz
Title
Coleccion de escritos menores en lengua kekchí de la VerapazOther related names
- Berendt, C. Hermann 1817-1878, former owner
- Brinton, Daniel Garrison, 1837-1899, former owner
Call number
Ms. Coll. 700 Item 77(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)
Alternate identifiers
- bibid: 9941022813503681
- http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/124559983
- http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4102281
Publisher
University of PennsylvaniaLanguage
Spanish and KekchiOrigin
Copied in Cobán, Guatemala, in 1875.
- Date
- 1875
- Place
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Coban Guatemala
Summary
A collection of fair but partial copies of three Kekchi documents, with a title page for the volume as a whole and a blank table of contents. The three documents are a glossary of Kekchi phrases copied in 1875 from an 1819 manuscript in the possession of Francisco Poou of Cobán (pp. 5-16); the first page of a sermon for the day of St. John the Baptist, copied in 1875 from a 1741 manuscript in the parish archives of Cobán (pp. [17-19]); and a sermon on the first commandment in Spanish and Kekchi, from 1855 (pp. [41-48]).
Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (p. [1]).
- Originals of the sermons from which C. Hermann Berendt started these copies are in Ms. Coll. 700 Item 68 (for the day of St. John the Baptist) and Ms. Coll. 700 Item 70 (on the first commandment).
Extent
28 leaves : 206 x 166 mm. bound to 214 x 180 mmFoliation
Paper, 28; [iv, 1-7], 8-16, [17-19, 9 blank, 29, 11 blank, 41-48 (with 45-48 paginated as 5-8), iv]; page numbers, when present, in ink, upper center.Support
PaperBinding
Late 19th-century half leather.Layout
Script
Provenance
- From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).
Subjects topical
- Catholic Church--Sermons
- Kekchi language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
- Kekchi language--Texts
- Sermons, Kekchi
- Sermons, Spanish
- Mayan languages--Texts
- Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Languages
Genres
- Codices
- Glossaries
- Sermons
- Translations
- Manuscripts, Spanish--19th century
Licenses
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