Details

Subjects:

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Early works to 1800.
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.
Bible. Old Testament.
Catholic Church -- Sermons.
Catholic Church.
Language and languages.
Indians of Central America.
Mayan languages.
Kekchi language.
Guatemala.
Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Early works to 1800.
Sermons, Kekchi.
Kekchi language -- Texts -- Early works to 1800.
Mayan languages -- Texts -- Early works to 1800.
Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Languages -- Early works to 1800.
Guatemala -- Languages -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Sermons.
Codices.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Manuscripts, Latin American.
Texts.

Language:

Kekchi with a few words in Latin in the last section, with title page and table of contents in Spanish.

Summary:

An 18th-century copy of an earlier manuscript, with title page and table of contents added by C. Hermann Berendt in 1875. The manuscript contains sermons on Judith, Esther and Mordecai, King Solomon, Jacob's ladder, and Moses in Egypt; praises of the Virgin Mary, with the heading Chapter 28; and part of a treatise by Fr. Domingo de Vico, all in Kekchi.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. [i]).
Pagination: Paper, 20; [ii], 18; foliation in ink, upper right recto, probably in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
Layout: Written in 20 long lines.
Binding: Late 19th-century half leather.

Penn Provenance:

Found with an 18th-century collection of sermons in Kekchi, which was purchased by Domingo Koy (Berendt note, f. [i] verso) and is Ms. Coll. 700 Item 79.
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. 18 (no. 78).
Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 669 (no. 129).
Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 295 (no. 3317).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 78

Contributor:

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

Contains:

Vico, Domingo de, 1485-1555.

OCLC:

155933069