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Title

Literatura de la lengua maya.

Authors

• Berendt, C. Hermann 1817-1878

Call number

Ms. Coll. 700 Item 235
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9956509093503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/783792856

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Spanish and English, with one clipping in German and one in French

Origin

Date

1871-1876?

Summary

Notebook containing an unfinished version of a bibliography on the Maya language compiled by, and in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt. This manuscript appears to have been intended to be a revised and cleanly written version of the draft bibliography found in Ms. Coll. 700, Item 234. Author entries are one or two pages long, including biographical notes followed by a list of works. The order of entries is roughly chronological, beginning with authors who lived in the 16th century; anonymous works are listed separately at the back (p. 73-76). Berendt includes himself as the last named author (p. 71), with a brief autobiographical summary and a list of two publications, in 1869 and 1871. An alphabetical index of author names at the back (p. 101-102), contains 53 names, with only a handful of page numbers filled in. Berendt entered content in the entries for a total of 10 authors: Luis de Villalpando; Diego de Landa; Alonso de la Solana; Francisco Torralva; Frédéric de Waldeck (only his place and date of birth); B. M. Norman; Henri Ternaux; Mr. Tromback of Belize; Francisco Pimentel, conde de Heras; and Berendt himself. On many pages a name heading is written, or the last name noted lightly in pencil, without any at the top of the intended page. The following loose items that were laid in are housed in a separate folder shelved with the manuscript: a clipping in German about the 100th birthday of Frédéric de Waldeck (N. Y. Belletristisches Journal, 25 April 1873); a strip of small clippings in French of book notices from a publication of Maisonneuve & cie, dated by hand 1876, with handwritten notations, mainly highlighting works of León de Rosny; a handwritten list of some of the same references on Rosny, the latest dated 1876; and a sheet of notes, perhaps pertaining to Diego de Landa, containing references to years in the 16th century, under the heading: Landa.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from cover.
   

Extent

48 leaves : 199 x 166 (199 x 125-130) mm bound to 197 x 167 mm .+

Foliation

Paper, iii + 48 + i leaves; [1], 2-51, [52], 63-99, [100-106]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper center, p. 2-17, and in pencil, upper right recto, only on odd-numbered pages, p. 63-99. P. 1, 9, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 39, 40, 72, 77-100, 103-104, and 106 are blank.

Support

Paper

Binding

19th-century cardboard with cloth spine; pieces of spine partially detached on upper and lower edge.

Layout

Written in up to 25 long lines; narrow inner margins (5-10 mm.) and wide outer margins (30 mm.) of the text block ruled in lead; faintly line-ruled.

Script

Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.

Provenance

• From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt; no ex libris stamp of Daniel Garrison Brinton.
   

Subjects topical

• Waldeck, Frédéric de,--1766-1875
• Waldeck, Frédéric de,--1766-1875
• Maya language
• Maya language
• Indians of Mexico--Languages
• Indians of Mexico--Languages
• Indians of Mexico--Early works to 1800
• Language and languages
• Indians of Mexico
• Mexico--Languages
• Mexico
• Mexico--Languages--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Bibliographies
• Clippings (information artifacts)
• Codices
• Manuscripts, Spanish
• Manuscripts, English
• Manuscripts, Latin American

Licenses

• Text

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