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Title

Apuntes para un diccionario de la lengua maya :

Authors

• Pérez, Juan Pío, 1798-1859

Other related names

• Berendt, C. Hermann 1817-1878, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93073368)
• Brinton, Daniel G. 1837-1899, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78096900)

Call number

Ms. Coll. 700 Item 228
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9954340433503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/777824681

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Spanish and Maya

Origin

Date

1870

Place

Mérida

Summary

Bound volume containing C. Hermann Berendt's partial copy of Juan Pio Pérez's notes for a dictionary of the Maya language (for Pérez's original manuscript, see Ms. Coll. 700, Item 5); some loose notes by Berendt that had been laid in are housed in a separate folder shelved with the manuscript. Following the author's preface (Prólogo; p. V-X), the main body of the volume is divided into two parts, each with its own title page: Part 1 (Primera parte) and Part 2 (Segunda parte). In each part, the entries are alphabetized according to the Maya word; the last entry in Part 1 is banban cheek, and in Part 2, boolan. In Part 2, Berendt marks many entries with either an asterisk (*) or a cross (+); the symbols are generally absent in Part 1, except for three entires marked with an asterisk (p. 24-25). Pérez's original manuscript, in contrast, apparently has four different alphabetized parts. The manuscript contains occasional pencilled annotations by Berendt (Part 1, 8, 22, 23; Part 2, p. 3, 10, 11), including a note in the preface that he initials (p. VIII). It also includes a title page for an introduction by the copyist (Introduccion de copiante; p. II). That section is blank; however, among the loose notes accompanying the manuscript are two leaves that appear to be drafts of prefatory material composed by Berendt, one titled Introducción del copiante, and the other, Advertencia. Another leaf contains notes by Berendt about Pérez's work, in part about orthography (in a blank portion, apparently unrelated to Berendt's notes, is the signature: Pio Perez). Notes on several additional partial leaves mainly pertain to vocabulary.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (Part 1, f. i).
   

Extent

582 leaves : 276 x 213 (202-208 x 130-132) mm bound to 286 x 230 mm +

Foliation

Paper, fol. ii (paper endleaves) + 582 + v (paper endleaves). The manuscript has two parts that are separately paginated, with 160 blank leaves intervening: i-ii, [I], II-III, [IV-V], VI-X, [XI-XII], [1], 2-27, [28-348 (blank)], [i-ii], [1], 2-14, [15-230 (blank)]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

19th-century half leather over blue marbled boards.

Layout

Vocabulary entries written in 32-33 long lines on lined paper, with the main entry in Maya and the Spanish equivalent following.

Script

Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.

Provenance

• Copied by C. Hermann Berendt from a manuscript of Juan Pio Pérez that was lent to Berendt by Nicolasa Péon y Escalente, niece of Juan Pio Pérez; while Berendt was in the process of making the copy, she presented the original to him as a gift, in acknowledgment of his paper entitled Los trabajos linguisticos de Don Juan Pio Perez (note tipped in, p. 27). Perez's original manuscript is part of the current collection (see Ms. Coll. 700, Item 5, Apuntes del diccionario de la lengua maya).
   
• From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Library bookplate for Daniel Garrison Brinton Library, inside upper cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Maya language--Dictionaries
• Indians of Mexico--Languages
• Maya language
• Mayan languages
• Language and languages
• Mayan languages--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Indians of Mexico--Languages
• Maya language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Mexico--Languages
• Mexico

Genres

• Manuscripts, Spanish
• Codices
• Glossaries
• Dictionaries
• Dictionaries
• Manuscripts, Mexican
• Manuscripts, Latin American
• Dictionaries
• Controlled vocabularies
• Controlled vocabularies
• Glossaries, vocabularies, etc

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