Details

Subjects:

Itzá dialect.
Lacandon dialect.
Mayan languages.
Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Languages.
Indians of Central America.
Guatemala.
Language and languages.
Indians of Mexico -- Languages.
Guatemala -- Languages.
Mexico -- Languages.
Mexico.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Songs.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Manuscripts, Mexican.

Language:

Itzá, Lacandon, and Yucatan dialects of Maya, with brief notes in Spanish and German.

Biography/History:

Ethnologist C. Hermann Berendt traveled to Petén, Guatemala, in 1866 and 1867 on behalf of the Smithsonian Institution.

Summary:

Notes on the Maya language as spoken in the Yucatan, with specific references to the Itzá (Petén) and Lacandon dialects spoken in Guatemala, followed by a collection of texts of songs in the Maya language, written in Mérida in 1868.

Contents:

1.p.1-46: Maya.
2.p.47-[56]: Canciones en lengua maya.
3.p.[60-61]: Additional notes.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
7 leaves that were loose or pasted to other leaves, including a sheet of notated music pasted inside the lower cover, have been removed and are shelved with the manuscript.
Pagination: Paper, 32; [ii], 53, [54-62]; pages 28-43 and [57-59] are blank, as are 14 leaves at the end of the volume; contemporary pagination in ink through 53, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
Binding: Late 19th-century cardboard.
Origin: Written in Guatemala and Mexico, probably between 1866 and 1868.

Penn Provenance:

From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page, f. 1r).

Cited in:

Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 223 (no. 2386).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 203

Contributor:

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

OCLC:

166253268