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Title

Lengua maya

Authors

• Berendt, C. Hermann 1817-1878
• Pérez, Juan Pío, 1798-1859

Other related names

• Brinton, Daniel Garrison, 1837-1899, former owner

Call number

Ms. Coll. 700 Item 43
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9946217503503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/463303615
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4621750

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Maya and Spanish

Origin

Date

1868

Place

Mérida

Summary

Collection of copies of or extracts from various documents concerning Mayan history and culture, made by C. Hermann Berendt in a notebook of lined paper. This item is the second of 3 volumes; for vols. 1 and 3, see Ms. Coll. 700 Item 42 and Item 44. In the present notebook the table of contents (f. 2r) has 9 entries written in ink, and the 10th entry written faintly in pencil, in the same hand. The texts are drawn from documents in the collection of Juan Pío Pérez, and/or Chilam Balam books; topics are concentrated on histories, prophecies, and the calendar, or reckoning of time. The earliest date in the text is 1511 (p. 49). The first 8 pages of entry 1 (p. 2-9) give the Maya and the Spanish translation on facing pages (the remaining pages of that entry are in Spanish). Berendt's title page for entry 4 indicates that the original document is in the archive of the village of Chicxulub; and that a copy of it, accompanied by a Spanish translation by Manuel Encarnacion Avila, of Mérida, is in possession of Pedro Regil y Peón. The entry itself is entirely in Maya, with no Spanish translation; it ends with a section about the conquistadors, with extensive lists of names. Entry 9 is a Mayan version of the story known in Spanish as Historia de la donzella Teodor. With the notebook generally written in brown ink, Berendt uses red ink in entries 1 and 3 to show corrections from or comparisons with another source, with a note explaining what the red ink represents (p. 2, [37]). In entry 4, certain words are underlined in blue ink, with a note, also in blue, explaining what that signifies (p. 49). In entry 8, he uses red ink to write his own explanation or comment, which he then signs (p. 192, 204); in one instance, he has corrected in blue ink the years mentioned in the text, explaining that in doing so he is making up for a shift of 300 years that, for an unknown reason, was introduced by Pio Pérez, so that while the latest year appearing in Pio Pérez's version is 2003, Berendt indicates that the year should be 1703 (p. 221). (Discounting those corrected dates, the latest date appearing in the Mayan texts is 1796; p. 181.) Pencilled notes, often page-number references, also appear throughout the notebook.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   

Extent

121 leaves : 189 x 123 (158-160 x 87-100) mm. bound to 193 x 125 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 121 + i leaves; [i-iv], 1-21, [22-25], 26-36, [37], 38-45, [46-48], 49-84, [85-86] 89-97, [98], 99-105, [106-108], 109-131, [132-134], 135-183, [184-186], 187-224, [225-226], 227-237, [238], 239-240; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners. Folded leaf (extension of table) tipped in on p. 100. Partial leaf tipped in (p. 8).

Support

Paper

Binding

19th-century boards; upper cover nearly detached; spine worn, with multiple tears; many gatherings and leaves loose or detached; title on spine in gilt lettering.

Script

Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.

Provenance

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

Subjects topical

• Maya calendar--Early works to 1800
• Maya language--Texts
• Mayas--Prophecies
• Mayas--History
• Indians of Mexico--Languages--Early works to 1800
• Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Languages--Early works to 1800
• Indians of Central America--Belize--Languages--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Calendars
• Translations (documents)
• Manuscripts, Spanish--19th century
• Manuscripts, Mexican--19th century

Licenses

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