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Title

Lengua maya

Authors

• Berendt, C. Hermann 1817-1878
• Pérez, Juan Pío, 1798-1859
• Brasseur de Bourbourg, abbé, 1814-1874
• Encarnación Avila, Manuel
• Pérez, Benito, 1747-1813
• Cervera, José Tiburcio
• Chan, Florentino
• Pec, Benancio
• Novelo, Bonifacio
• García, José Antonio

Other related names

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

Call number

Ms. Coll. 700 Item 44
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9925781143503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/463308116
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2578114

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Maya and Spanish, with some French (p. 137-141, 143)

Origin

Date

1870

Place

Mérida

Summary

Collection of copies of or extracts from various documents in Maya made by C. Hermann Berendt in a notebook of lined paper. The texts pertain to Maya history, astrology, calendar, and other aspects of culture, including one poem. This item is the third of 3 volumes; for vols. 1 and 2, see Ms. Coll. 700 Item 42 and Item 43. At the beginning of entry 1 is a table with 12 boxes labeled for the signs of the zodiac (p. 1); and 12 sections of text that follow are each headed by a small symbol, apparently representative of the 12 signs. The last part of that entry displays information in columns under headings for months of the year. The fragments of biblical stories related in entry 2 mention Abraham, Sarah and Isaac. Entry 3 presents parts of a history of the Yucatán found in the Codice Pérez, copied from the Chilam Balam de Mani (p. 34), with corresponding text from the Chilam Balam de Tizimin on facing pages. The earliest date that appears in either text is 1522 (p. 47) and the latest 1611 (p. 48, 49). The leaf tipped in at the end of that entry (numbered 47-48) is largely a duplicate of a preceding leaf (p. 47-48), but with additional footnotes by Berendt. Entry 4 evidently sets the Maya calculation of years into correspondence with the years of the Christian era, which are listed individually, one to a line, from 1 to 1895. Entries 5, 7, and 9 present texts in Maya and the Spanish translation on facing pages. The texts are, respectively, the poem Yacunah Cay (Spanish: Canto de Amor); the title to a domain in Aceneh, with the heading Acineh Cheltun, which mentions the dates 1677, 1767, and 1769; and an order of 1803, by the governor of the Yucatán, Benito Pérez, concerning the punctual delivery of the mail. (In entry 5, only a Spanish translation is included, although Berendt credits the French translation of Brasseur de Bourbourg on the title page.) In entry 6, following a long quotation from Brasseur's work (p. 137), the invocation to the sun is given in Maya, with Spanish and French versions on the facing page. Entry 8 is extracted from papers at the hacienda of Xtepén held by (and/or copied by?) Joaquín Hübbe. Entry 10 contains the Mayan text of two prayers (apparently Christian). Entry 11 is the text of proposals for a peace treaty made by rebel Indians during the Caste War in a letter of 1850 to the parish priest (cura) José Antonio Garcia in the municipality of Chemax, which Berendt copied from a collection of documents about that war held by the priest Crescencio Carrillo.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (p. iii).
   

Extent

163 leaves : 188 x123 mm. bound to 193 x 132 mm

Foliation

Paper, fol. i (paper endleaf) + 163 + i (paper endleaf); [i-ii (blank), iii-x, 1], 3-4, [5], 6-22, [23-24], 25-31, [32-33], 34-49, [50], 47-48, [51-52], 53-131, [132-133], 134-135, [136-137], 138-143, [144-145], 146-153, [154-156], 157-159, [160-161], 162-167, [168-170], 171-174, [175-176], 177-191, [192, cxxii (blank)]. Contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners. Tipped in on one of the blank pages at the back of the notebook is a partial leaf with lines ruled in brown ink on both sides (no text).

Support

Paper

Binding

19th-century boards; some gatherings partially detached from binding. Spine has four raised horizontal bars, and title 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 of entry 1; p. ix).
   

Subjects topical

• Maya calendar--Early works to 1800
• Maya astrology--Early works to 1800
• Maya language--Texts
• Maya poetry
• 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
• Translations (documents)
• Prayers

Genres

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

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