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Title

Diccionario español-maya de Ticul, 1690

Authors

• Pérez, Juan Pío, 1798-1859

Other related names

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

Call number

Ms. Coll. 700 Item 2
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9925822693503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63635956
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2582269

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Spanish and Maya

Origin

Date

1870

Place

Mérida

Summary

Third-generation copy of a 17th-century Spanish-Mayan dictionary, now lost, found in the parish archives of Ticul, Mexico, in 1836 and previously copied by the Yucatecan linguist Juan Pío Pérez in 1836 and 1847. The Spanish-Maya dictionary also includes a list of Mayan words for various relatives (p. 259) and a list of Mayan words with similar pronunciations but different meanings (p. 262). Followed in the same volume by a copy of the corresponding Mayan-Spanish dictionary compiled by Pérez in 1847.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title pages (f. 2r, 142r).
   

Extent

282 leaves : 281 x 212 (185 x 130) mm. bound to 289 x 237 mm

Foliation

Paper, fol. i + 138 + iv + 121 + xviii (blank); contemporary pagination in ink, [ii, I-III], IV-VIII, 267, [ix, 1], 2-241, [xxxvii], upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Late 19th-century half leather; paper label inside upper cover reads Encuadernacion de Felipe Montilla, Merida de Yucatan.

Layout

Written in 30 long lines.

Script

In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.

Provenance

• Copied from Juan Pío Pérez's 1847 copy of the Vocabulario de la lengua maya que comienza en romance, compuesto de varios autores de esta lengua and the Maya-Spanish dictionary compiled by Pérez.
   
• From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).
   

Subjects topical

• Spanish language--Dictionaries--Early works to 1700
• Spanish language--Dictionaries--Maya
• Maya language--Dictionaries--Spanish
• Indians of Mexico--Languages--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Dictionaries
• Glossaries
• Manuscripts, Spanish--19th century
• Manuscripts, Mexican--19th century

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