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Title

Other related names

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

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9938446633503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79478379
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3844663

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

1878

Place

Guatemala

Summary

A 19th-century copy of a 17th-century manuscript about the calendar of the Cakchikel Indians, with an introduction about the original manuscript by C. Hermann Berendt, who made the copy. Berendt also compares the Mayan and Aztec calendars and lists the names of the months and days for each. The manuscript text contains the names of each month in the Cakchikel calendar along with their meanings and gives a list of the days with their corresponding dates in the Julian calendar.

Notes

• Ms. component part.
   
• Title from component title page (f. 41r).
   
• Item 57 is bound and shelved with Item 58.
   

Extent

Foliation

Support

Script

Provenance

• Copied by C. Hermann Berendt from a manuscript found by Juan Gavarrete in 1829 among the papers of the Franciscan convent in Guatemala City and found in the "Choronica de la Santa Provincia del Santissimo Nombre de Jesus de Guatemala" (p. [3]).
   
• From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).
   

Subjects topical

• Cakchikel language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Maya calendar--Early works to 1800
• Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Languages--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Calendars
• Glossaries
• Manuscripts, Spanish--19th century

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Rare Book & Manuscript Library Ms. Coll. 700 Item 57: Calendario de los indios de Guatemala, 1685, Cakchiquel are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

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