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Other Title:

Interprétation des anciens textes mayas.

Subjects:

Mayan languages -- Writing.
Mayan languages -- Grammar.
Maya language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Languages.
Indians of Central America.
Maya language.
Mayan languages.
Guatemala.
Language and languages.
Indians of Central America -- Belize -- Languages.
Belize.
Indians of Mexico -- Languages.
Guatemala -- Languages.
Mexico -- Languages.
Mexico.
Belize -- Languages.

Form/Genre:

Translations (documents)
Glossaries.
Manuscripts, French.
Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Controlled vocabularies.

Language:

French, English, and German, with Maya examples and vocabulary.

Summary:

Published copy of Léon de Rosny's L'interprétation des anciens textes mayas (Paris: Gustave Bossange, 1875), with numerous annotations and corrections by C. Hermann Berendt throughout the text. Rosny's work includes an overview of Mayan grammar (p. 13-34), selected texts with translations (p. 35-46), and a Maya-French vocabulary (p. 47-70), followed by book advertisements (Bulletin de Publicité orientale et américaine; 16 p.) and a statement about the Société américaine de France (8 p.). On one of the tipped-in leaves (front free endpaper), Berendt provides an overview of his evaluation of the first 5 columns of Rosny's vocabulary (Die 5 ersten Spalten v. Rosnys "Vocabulaire M.-Fr."), categorizing those 133 entries under headings such as: correct word, correct meaning; or: correct word, incorrect meaning. Additional entries from the 6th column are made in red ink, up to 163.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger; title for book on printed title page (p. [3]) is L'interprétation des anciens textes mayas.
Pagination: Paper, ii + 48 + ii leaves; [1-5], 6-70, [71-73], [1-2], 3-16, [1-3], 4-8. Varying-sized leaves of notepaper tipped in as follows: 2 on inside upper cover; 3 on recto of front free endpaper; 1 on recto of final back free endpaper.
Script: Annotations written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
Binding: Late 19th-century quarter calf over marbled boards; partial split between front pastedown and front free endpaper.
Origin: Written ca. 1875.

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. 6 (no. 15).
Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 671-672 (no. 137).
Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 321 (no. 3605).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item15

Contributor:

Rosny, Léon de, 1837-1914.
Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878, former owner.
Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.

OCLC:

456547848