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Other Title:

Diccionario de la lengua maya de Yucatan

Subjects:

Maya language -- Dictionaries -- Spanish -- Early works to 1700.
Maya language.
Language and languages.
Indians of Mexico -- Languages.
Mexico.
Spanish language -- Dictionaries -- Maya -- Early works to 1700.
Spanish language.
Indians of Mexico -- Languages -- Early works to 1800.
Mexico -- Languages -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Dictionaries.
Glossaries.
Manuscripts, Spanish.

Language:

Spanish and Maya.

Summary:

Volume 1 is C. Hermann Berendt's copy of the late 16th- or early 17th-century Maya-Spanish dictionary of Antonio de Ciudad Real, containing thousands of entries with extensive annotations by Berendt in blue ink, red ink, and pencil. Ciudad Real's manuscript has been associated with the Franciscan convent in Motul, Mexico. Volume 2 is Berendt's copy of a slightly later Spanish-Maya dictionary, with the main text in black and green (faded black?) ink and annotations in blue ink, red ink, and pencil. Volume 3 contains additions and corrections to Volume 1. The volumes were started in 1864 and annotated over many years. Among the sources of the annotations and corrections are the works of Pedro Beltrán de Santa Rosa (Item 9 and Item 10 in this collection) and Gabriel de San Buenaventura (Item 8), and the Diccionario de Ticul and Diccionario de San Francisco (Item 2 and Item 3).

Contents:

1. v.1: Maya-español.
2. v.2: Español-maya.
3. v.3: Adiciones y correcturas.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1 or f. 2 of each volume).
Pagination: Vol. 1: Paper, ii + 789 + ii; [iv], VII, 1565, [1566-1569, v]. Vol. 2: Paper, ii + 258 + ii; [viii], 508, [viii]. Pagination in ink, upper outer corners. Vol. 3 (Foliation): Paper, ii + 205 + i; [ii], 1, [i], 2-204, [i]; modern pencil foliation, upper right recto.
Layout: Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 written in 24 long lines; Vol. 3 written in 2 columns with page numbers from Vol. 1 at the top of each column and a guide word in Maya at the top of each page.
Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
Decoration: Pencil illustrations (Vol. 1, p. 386, 824, 1445; Vol. 2, 86, 269); ink illustrations of small circular symbols (Vol. 3, for example p. 3, 19) and ink sketches (Vol. 3, p. 104).
Binding: Vol. 1, 19th-century half calf with gilt Gothic B at tail of spine, upper cover detached; Vol. 2, 19th-century half calf with gilt Gothic B at tail of spine ; Vol. 3, 19th-century half leather, with spine missing and upper cover detached.
Origin: Written in Providence, R. I., in 1864.

Penn Provenance:

Annotated copy by C. Hermann Berendt of manuscripts in the John Carter Brown Library (Vol. 1 and Vol. 2), 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. 2 (no. 1).
Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 646 (no. 57).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 1

Contributor:

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

Contains:

Ciudad Real, Antonio de, 1551-1617.

OCLC:

190863771