Details

Subjects:

Books of Chilam Balam.
Maya language -- Texts.
Maya language.
Mayan languages.
Mayas -- Ethnobotany.
Mayas.
Maya language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Mayas -- Medicine.
Materia medica, Vegetable -- Mexico.
Materia medica, Vegetable.
Mexico.
Traditional medicine -- Mexico.
Traditional medicine.
Mayan languages -- Texts.
Indians of Mexico -- Languages.
Mexico -- Languages.
Language and languages.

Form/Genre:

Texts.
Codices.
Glossaries.
Herbals (reference sources)
Manuscripts, Mexican.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Controlled vocabularies.

Language:

Spanish and Maya.

Summary:

C. Hermann Berendt's copy of Juan Pío Pérez's study of the medical contents of the Books of Chilam Balam, with additional extracts and notes by Berendt. The first two sections of the manuscript are alphabetical lists of plants (p. 1-28) and ailments (p. 29-40), with references to burns, childbirth complications, colic, depression, gangrene, snake bites, stomach-aches, and worms. The later pages of the manuscript (after p. 51) are in much rougher form, with notes pasted in.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (p. [i]).
Pagination: Paper, 40; [vi, 1], 2-49, [50-74] (p. 58-66 blank); pagination in hand of author, upper center; modern pencil pagination, lower outer corners.
Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
Binding: Late 19th-century half leather.
Origin: Written in Mérida, Mexico, in 1870 (p. [i]).

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. 12 (no. 45).
Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 669 (no. 128).
Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 289 (no. 3225).

Publications about:

Facsimile published under the title Recetarios de indios en lengua maya: índices de plantas medicinales y de enfermedades (Raquel Birman Furman, editor; México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, Centro de Estudios Mayas, 1996).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 45

Contributor:

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

OCLC:

155932828