Details

Subjects:

Spanish language -- Dictionaries -- Early works to 1700.
Spanish language.
Language and languages.
Indians of Mexico -- Languages.
Maya language.
Mexico.
Spanish language -- Dictionaries -- Maya.
Maya language -- Dictionaries -- Spanish.
Indians of Mexico -- Languages -- Early works to 1800.
Mexico -- Languages -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Dictionaries.
Codices.
Glossaries.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Manuscripts, Mexican.

Language:

Spanish and Maya.

Summary:

Third-generation copy of a 17th-century Spanish-Mayan dictionary, now lost, found in the parish archives of Ticul, Mexico, in 1836 and previously copied by the Yucatecan linguist Juan Pío Pérez in 1836 and 1847. The Spanish-Maya dictionary also includes a list of Mayan words for various relatives (p. 259) and a list of Mayan words with similar pronunciations but different meanings (p. 262). Followed in the same volume by a copy of the corresponding Mayan-Spanish dictionary compiled by Pérez in 1847.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title pages (f. 2r, 142r).
Pagination: Paper, fol. i + 138 + iv + 121 + xviii (blank); contemporary pagination in ink, [ii, I-III], IV-VIII, 267, [ix, 1], 2-241, [xxxvii], upper outer corners.
Layout: Written in 30 long lines.
Script: In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
Binding: Late 19th-century half leather; paper label inside upper cover reads Encuadernacion de Felipe Montilla, Merida de Yucatan.
Origin: Copied in Mérida, Mexico, in 1870.

Penn Provenance:

Copied from Juan Pío Pérez's 1847 copy of the Vocabulario de la lengua maya que comienza en romance, compuesto de varios autores de esta lengua and the Maya-Spanish dictionary compiled by Pérez.
From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).

Cited in:

Described in Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection (Department of Archaeology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania, 1900), p. 3 (no. 2).
Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 650 (no. 69).
Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 138-139 (no. 1286).

Publications about:

Pérez, Juan Pío. Diccionario de la lengua maya. Merida de Yucatan: Imprenta Literaria de Juan F. Molina Solís, 1866-1877.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 2

Contributor:

Pérez, Juan Pío, 1798-1859.
Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878, former owner.
Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.

Contains:

Diccionario maya-español de Ticul.

OCLC:

63635956