Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Sermons.
Catholic Church.
Ten commandments.
Mayan languages.
Kekchi language.
Ten commandments -- Sermons.
Kekchi language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Kekchi language -- Texts.
Sermons, Kekchi.
Sermons, Spanish.
Mayan languages -- Texts.
Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Languages.
Indians of Central America.
Guatemala.
Language and languages.
Guatemala -- Languages.

Form/Genre:

Sermons.
Codices.
Glossaries.
Translations (documents)
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Texts.
Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Controlled vocabularies.

Language:

Spanish and Kekchi.

Summary:

A collection of fair but partial copies of three Kekchi documents, with a title page for the volume as a whole and a blank table of contents. The three documents are a glossary of Kekchi phrases copied in 1875 from an 1819 manuscript in the possession of Francisco Poou of Cobán (pp. 5-16); the first page of a sermon for the day of St. John the Baptist, copied in 1875 from a 1741 manuscript in the parish archives of Cobán (pp. [17-19]); and a sermon on the first commandment in Spanish and Kekchi, from 1855 (pp. [41-48]).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (p. [1]).
Originals of the sermons from which C. Hermann Berendt started these copies are in Ms. Coll. 700 Item 68 (for the day of St. John the Baptist) and Ms. Coll. 700 Item 70 (on the first commandment).
Pagination: Paper, 28; [iv, 1-7], 8-16, [17-19, 9 blank, 29, 11 blank, 41-48 (with 45-48 paginated as 5-8), iv]; page numbers, when present, in ink, upper center.
Layout: First and third works written in two columns for Kekchi and Spanish.
Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
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), p. 18 (no. 77).
Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 647 (no. 59).
Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 123 (no. 1080).
Second work listed individually in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 336 (no. 3827).
Third work listed individually in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 296 (no. 3320).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 77

Contributor:

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

Contains:

Frases de conversacion en lengua kekchí.
Sermon para el dia de San Juan en lengua kekchí.
Pláticas sobre los mandamientos de la ley de Dios en el idioma kekchí.

OCLC:

155932795