Details

Subjects:

Cakchikel language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Mayan languages -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. -- Early works to 1800.
Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Languages -- Early works to 1800.
Language and languages.
Indians of Central America.
Mayan languages.
Cakchikel language.
Guatemala -- Languages -- Early works to 1800.
Guatemala.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Glossaries.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Manuscripts, Latin American.
Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Controlled vocabularies.

Language:

Spanish and Cakchikel.

Biography/History:

Dominican missionary and Spanish writer.

Summary:

A late 18th-century manuscript of an extensive vocabulary for the Cakchikel language by Francisco Ximénez, perhaps copied by Fr. Antonio Garcia. The words are arranged in an alphabetical order, with a final leaf on numerals and words to refer to number of days past and future. The penultimate leaf includes a colophon-like inscription, with initials standing for words, that suggests a date of 22 May 1794.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 1).
Foliation: Paper, 80; modern foliation in pencil, lower left recto; f. 36-79 have contemporary foliation 9-52 in ink, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 35 lines, with Cakchikel entry words at the left margin and slightly larger and the Spanish definitions indented from the left.
Script: Written in a cursive hand.
Binding: Late 18th- or early 19th-century vellum, with three leather thongs across the spine. Many leaves loose or detached.
Origin: Written in Guatemala in 1794 (possible date, f. 78)?

Penn Provenance:

From the collection of Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp inside upper cover).

Cited in:

Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 390 (no. 4490).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 196

Contributor:

Garcia, Antonio.
Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.

OCLC:

155932862