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Title

Authors

• Berendt, C. Hermann 1817-1878
• Torresano, Estevan

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957023673503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/786293284

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

between 1855 and 1878

Place

Summary

Vocabulary list in Cakchikel, with Spanish equivalents, compiled by C. Hermann Berendt, comprising approximately 96 Cakchikel words that begin with the sound that apparently is commonly transcribed as: ch, for example, at the beginning of the Cakchikel word meaning star (estrella; found here on f. i), which is commonly spelled: chumil. The words are spelled here with an initial character (possibly a symbol in what became the International Phonetic Alphabet) that resembles a script letter t; in the caption title on the first page Berendt indicates that this symbol followed by the letter h should be equated with a form of the sound: ch. A few scattered notes written in red ink represent a comparison to Maya, according to a note by Berendt (f. i). The last leaf of the manuscript contains a narrative passage in Spanish pertaining to the grammatical forms of nouns that breaks off in mid sentence. Although no attribution is given, the passage can be identified as the beginning of the 1754 work on the grammar of the Cakchikel language by Father Estevan Torresano, entitled Arte de lengua cakchiquel; at an undetermined time during Berendt's years of linguistic research, he made a copy of the latter work based on a copy of it that had been made by or for E. G. Squier in 1855 (for Berendt's copy, see Ms. Coll. 700, Item 54). Presumably that leaf of the manuscript is a remnant, or a false start related to Berendt's copying of Torresano's work. The appearance of the present manuscript gathering suggests that it may have been removed from a volume containing Berendt's copy of yet another work on Cakchikel, by Pantaleón de Guzmán, entitled Compendio de nombres en lengua cakchiquel ... (see Ms. Coll. 700, Item 52); the time frame of Berendt's writing of the latter copy is also undetermined.

Notes

• Ms. gathering.
   
• Title from caption title (f. i).
   

Extent

Foliation

Support

Binding

Layout

Script

Provenance

• One passage copied from E.G. Squier's copy of Estevan Torresano's 1754 work entitled Arte de lengua cakchiquel; Squier's copy, dated 1855, is held today by the Smithsonian Institution.
   
• No ex libris stamp of Daniel Garrison Brinton; transferred as part of the Brinton Library from the University of Pennsylvania Museum Library.
   

Subjects topical

• Cakchikel language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Cakchikel language--Grammar
• Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Languages
• Indians of Central America
• Cakchikel language--Grammar
• Cakchikel language
• Language and languages
• Guatemala
• Guatemala--Languages

Genres

• Manuscripts, Spanish
• Controlled vocabularies
• Glossaries
• Manuscripts, Latin American
• Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Controlled vocabularies
• Codices

Licenses

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