Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Arte de lengua kiché

Authors

• Anleo, Bartholomé de, ca. 1630-1694

Other related names

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

Call number

Ms. Coll. 700 Item 55
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9938466323503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79498967
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3846632

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Spanish and Quiché

Origin

Date

between 1850 and 1875?

Place

United States?

Summary

A 19th-century copy of Anleo's 17th-century grammar for the Quiché language, including sections on orthography and numerals.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title and author from title page (p. 1); the first character of the language name is a Parra symbol, which has been transcribed as a k in all later references.
   
• Two notes referring to Quiché are laid inside the front cover: one in ink that may be contemporary with Berendt's copy and one in pencil that is more modern but related in content to the first.
   

Extent

67 leaves : 169 x 103 mm. bound to 177 x 115 mm

Foliation

Paper, [2], 3-192 (pages 134-192 blank); page numbers stamped in blue ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

19th-century leatherbound notebook purchased in New York (very similar to Ms. Coll. 700 Item 54).

Script

In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.

Provenance

• Copied from a copy made by or for E. G. Squier (1821-1888) from a copy in the Bibliothèque Nationale made by Fr. Antonio Ramirez de Utrilla in 1744.
   
• From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).
   

Subjects topical

• Quiché language--Grammar
• Mayan languages--Grammar--Early works to 1800
• Mayan languages--Writing--Early works to 1800
• Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Languages--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Licenses

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