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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: 9941022813503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/124559983
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4102281

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

1875

Place

Coban Guatemala

Summary

A collection of fair but partial copies of three Kekchi documents, with a title page for the volume as a whole and a blank table of contents. The three documents are a glossary of Kekchi phrases copied in 1875 from an 1819 manuscript in the possession of Francisco Poou of Cobán (pp. 5-16); the first page of a sermon for the day of St. John the Baptist, copied in 1875 from a 1741 manuscript in the parish archives of Cobán (pp. [17-19]); and a sermon on the first commandment in Spanish and Kekchi, from 1855 (pp. [41-48]).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (p. [1]).
   
• Originals of the sermons from which C. Hermann Berendt started these copies are in Ms. Coll. 700 Item 68 (for the day of St. John the Baptist) and Ms. Coll. 700 Item 70 (on the first commandment).
   

Extent

Foliation

Support

Binding

Layout

Script

Provenance

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

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Sermons
• Kekchi language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Kekchi language--Texts
• Sermons, Kekchi
• Sermons, Spanish
• Mayan languages--Texts
• Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Languages

Genres

• Codices
• Glossaries
• Sermons
• Translations
• Manuscripts, Spanish--19th century

Licenses

• Text

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