Details

Subjects:

Cakchikel language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Maya calendar -- Early works to 1800.
Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Languages -- Early works to 1800.
Language and languages.
Indians of Central America.
Maya calendar.
Cakchikel language.
Guatemala -- Languages -- Early works to 1800.
Guatemala.

Form/Genre:

Calendars (documents by form)
Glossaries.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Controlled vocabularies.

Language:

Spanish and Cakchikel.

Summary:

A 19th-century copy of a 17th-century manuscript about the calendar of the Cakchikel Indians, with an introduction about the original manuscript by C. Hermann Berendt, who made the copy. Berendt also compares the Mayan and Aztec calendars and lists the names of the months and days for each. The manuscript text contains the names of each month in the Cakchikel calendar along with their meanings and gives a list of the days with their corresponding dates in the Julian calendar.

Notes:

Ms. component part.
Title from component title page (f. 41r).
Pagination: Paper, 14; [1-3], 4-27 ; page numbers in the hand of the writer, upper center.
Script: Written by C. Hermann Berendt.
Origin: Copied in Guatemala (City) in 1878.
Item 57 is bound and shelved with Item 58.

Penn Provenance:

Copied by C. Hermann Berendt from a manuscript found by Juan Gavarrete in 1829 among the papers of the Franciscan convent in Guatemala City and found in the "Choronica de la Santa Provincia del Santissimo Nombre de Jesus de Guatemala" (p. [3]).
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. 15 (no. 57).
Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 644 (no. 50).
Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 104-105 (no. 841).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 57

Contributor:

Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878, former owner.
Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.

OCLC:

155927555