Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Sermons.
Catholic Church.
Language and languages.
Indians of Central America.
Mayan languages.
Kekchi language.
Guatemala.
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.
Hybrid books.
Codices.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Texts.

Language:

Kekchi, with two printed pages in Spanish and front matter in Spanish added in 1875 by Berendt .

Summary:

A 18th-century copy of sermons in Kekchi in a variety of hands from the 17th century, on topics such as St. Thomas Aquinas, Pope Gregory, St. Benito Abad, the Ascension, Corpus Christi, the Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene, the apostles Peter and Paul, and preparation for confession. Berendt also lists astronomical-religious notes in his table of contents. Bound in after the manuscript are two leaves (pp. 71-74) from a printed work with the running title Liber primero de la exortacion à la virtud.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from Berendt's later title page (f. 2r).
Foliation: Paper, 134; modern pencil foliation, lower right recto; these numbers include four leaves before the early manuscript, so the marked foliation is always four ahead of the entries in Berendt's table of contents.
Binding: Late 19th-century half leather.
Origin: Written in Guatemala before 1782 (dated note, f. 132).

Penn Provenance:

Purchased by Domingo Koy from another Indian in the 19th century (Berendt preface, f. 3r).
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. 79).
Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 669 (no. 130).
Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 295 (no. 3318).

Publications about:

Photostat facsimile: Platicas de la historia sagrada en lengua cacchii del siglo XVIImo (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1917).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 79

Contributor:

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

Contains:

Exortacion à la virtud.

OCLC:

155933071