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Title

Arte de lengua maya

Authors

• San Buenaventura, Gabriel de, fl. 1684

Other related names

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

Call number

Ms. Coll. 700 Item 8
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9941348333503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155866635
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4134833

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Spanish and Maya

Origin

Date

1868

Place

Mérida

Summary

C. Hermann Berendt's fair manuscript copy of Gabriel de San Buenaventura's 1684 grammar of the Maya language, the first printed Maya grammar, including a facsimile title page and the front matter in Spanish. Berendt also compiled an index to the grammar (p. 159-163).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from facsimile title page (p. [1]).
   

Extent

83 leaves : 190 x 127 mm. bound to 197 x 136 mm

Foliation

Paper, 83; [ii, 1-3], 4-143, 145-146, 148-163, [164, ii]; page numbers in ink, upper outer corners. The omission of 144 and 147 is an error in pagination; this record refers to pagination as it appears in the manuscript.

Support

Paper

Binding

Late 19th-century leather with minimal gold tooling; spine has Buenaventura, Ms., and a B at the tail of the spine for Berendt in gilt.

Layout

Written in 23 long lines on lined paper.

Script

Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt, primarily in black ink, with corrections, additions, and marginalia in blue ink.

Provenance

• From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).
   

Subjects topical

• Maya language--Grammar
• Mayan languages--Grammar--Early works to 1800
• Indians of Mexico--Languages--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Grammars
• Manuscripts, Mexican--19th century
• Manuscripts, Spanish--19th century

Licenses

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