Details

Subjects:

Maya language -- Grammar.
Mayan languages -- Grammar -- Early works to 1800.
Indians of Mexico -- Languages -- Early works to 1800.
Language and languages.
Indians of Mexico -- Languages.
Mayan languages -- Grammar.
Mayan languages.
Mexico -- Languages -- Early works to 1800.
Mexico.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Grammars (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Mexican.
Manuscripts, Spanish.

Language:

Spanish and Maya.

Summary:

C. Hermann Berendt's fair manuscript copy of Gabriel de San Buenaventura's 1684 grammar of the Maya language, the first printed Maya grammar, including a facsimile title page and the front matter in Spanish. Berendt also compiled an index to the grammar (p. 159-163).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from facsimile title page (p. [1]).
Pagination: Paper, 83; [ii, 1-3], 4-143, 145-146, 148-163, [164, ii]; page numbers in ink, upper outer corners. The omission of 144 and 147 is an error in pagination; this record refers to pagination as it appears in the manuscript.
Layout: Written in 23 long lines on lined paper.
Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt, primarily in black ink, with corrections, additions, and marginalia in blue ink.
Binding: Late 19th-century leather with minimal gold tooling; spine has Buenaventura, Ms., and a B at the tail of the spine for Berendt in gilt.
Origin: Copied in Mérida, Mexico, in 1868.

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. 5 (no. 8).
Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 675 (no. 150).
Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 327 (no. 3669).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 8

Contributor:

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

OCLC:

155932844