Details

Subjects:

Itza Indians -- History -- Early works to 1800.
Mopan Indians -- History -- Early works to 1800.
Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- History -- Early works to 1800.
Indians of Mexico -- History -- Early works to 1800.
Indians of Mexico.
History.
Indians of Central America.
Mopan Indians.
Itza Indians.
Guatemala.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Manuscripts, Latin American.

Biography/History:

Dominican provincial in Guatemala in the late 17th century.

Summary:

A late 17th-century manuscript by Cano about the Itzá and Mopan Indians, preceded by notes by C. Hermann Berendt about Cano from other sources.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from C. Hermann Berendt's paper cover of manuscript, inside later binding (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, 25; modern pencil foliation, lower right recto; Cano's 17th-century manuscript (f. 12-21) has contemporary foliation 47-56, in ink, upper right recto.
Layout: Cano's manuscript written in 35-38 long lines; Berendt's notes written in 36 long lines.
Script: Possibly in the hand of Agustín Cano and in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
Binding: Late 19th-century half leather.
Origin: Manuscript written by Cano in Guatemala in the 1690s; notes added by Berendt in 1877.

Penn Provenance:

Gift to C. Hermann Berendt from Alexander von Frantzius, who obtained it from Señor Kleefeld in Spain (note by C. Hermann Berendt, dated 1877, f. 12r)
From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on flyleaf).

Cited in:

Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 106 (no. 867).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 193

Contributor:

Frantzius, Alexander von, 1821-1877, former owner.
Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.

OCLC:

171297654