Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Grammars (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Spanish.

Language:

Spanish and Quiché.

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.
Pagination: Paper, [2], 3-192 (pages 134-192 blank); page numbers stamped in blue ink, upper outer corners.
Script: In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
Binding: 19th-century leatherbound notebook purchased in New York (very similar to Ms. Coll. 700 Item 54).
Origin: Copied, probably in the United States, between 1850 and 1875.

Penn 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).

Cited in:

Described in Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection (Department of Archaeology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania, 1900), p. 14 (no. 55).
Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 631 (no. 10).
Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 48 (no. 158).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 55

Contributor:

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

OCLC:

155927564