Details

Subjects:

Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547 -- Drama.
Montezuma II, Emperor of Mexico, approximately 1480-1520 -- Drama.
Montezuma II, Emperor of Mexico, approximately 1480-1520.
Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547.
Quiché language -- Texts.
Quiché language.
History.
Mayan languages.
Mexico.
Mayan languages -- Texts.
Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Languages.
Indians of Central America.
Guatemala.
Language and languages.
Guatemala -- Languages.
Mexico -- History -- Conquest, 1519-1540 -- Drama.

Form/Genre:

Texts.
Codices.
Plays (performing arts compositions)
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Drama.

Language:

Quiché and Spanish.

Summary:

A 19th-century drama in Quiché and Spanish about the conquest of Mexico. Montezuma and Cortés both appear as characters, and the title of the play is the name of another character.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r); the third character of the title is a Parra symbol, which has been transcribed as a double c in all later references.
"This is a modern drama written by a native, in Kiche and Spanish, the plot based on the conquest of Mexico. It is one of the few correct specimens of the native drama which have been preserved, and although not possessing the claim of antiquity, presents the general style and manner of treatment adopted in the primitive scenic representations" (Brinton).
Pagination: Paper, vi + 69, followed by four blank leaves; contemporary pagination in ink, upper center.
Script: In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt; Quiché and Spanish are represented in two different scripts.
Watermark: Department of State, U.S.
Binding: Late 19th-century half-leather.
Origin: Copied in Cobán, Guatemala, in 1875.

Penn Provenance:

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), pp. 14-15 (no. 56).
Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 683 (no. 182).
Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 391 (no. 4497).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 56

Contributor:

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

OCLC:

155927734