Diccionario maya-español del Convento de San Francisco en Mérida / copiado por C. Hermann Berendt, M.D. ; Diccionario español-maya del Convento de San Francisco en Mérida, copiado por C. Hermann Berendt, M.D.

Format:

Manuscript

Contributor:

Hübbe, Joaquín, 1832-1901, associated name.

Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878, former owner.

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

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Spanish language--Dictionaries--Early works to 1700.

Spanish language.

Language and languages.

Indians of Mexico--Languages.

Maya language.

Mexico.

Spanish language--Dictionaries--Maya.

Maya language--Dictionaries--Spanish.

Indians of Mexico--Languages--Early works to 1800.

Indians of Mexico.

Mexico--Languages--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

Dictionaries.

Codices.

dictionaries

glossaries

Manuscripts, Spanish.

Manuscripts, Mexican.

Penn Provenance:

Copied from Juan Pío Pérez's copy of the Maya-Spanish and Spanish-Maya dictionary of the Convent of San Francisco.

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

Physical Description:

2 volumes (203, 207 leaves) : paper ; 281 x 216 (v. 1, 198 x 128; v. 2, 180 x 131) mm bound to 289 x 235 mm (v. 1) and 289 x 240 mm (v. 2)

Contained In:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 3

Place of Publication:

Mérida, 1870.

Language Note:

Spanish and Maya.

Summary:

Second-generation copy of a 17th-century Spanish-Mayan dictionary, now lost, which was at the Franciscan convent in Mérida until its closure in 1820 or 1821 and copied in 1855 by the Yucatecan linguist Juan Pío Pérez. The original is thought to have been older than the Diccionario de Ticul (Ms. Coll. 700, Item 2), which was dated 1690. In the first volume, words and phrases in Maya are followed by their Spanish equivalents. An appendix includes vocabulary lists containing counting terms, kinship terms, parts of the body, adverbs of time, and illnesses; and a list of additional entries for the dictionary. The second volume, bearing the heading Diccionario en la lengua, contains the Spanish-Maya portion of the dictionary and also has supplementary words and phrases listed at the end.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from title pages (v. 1, f. 3r; v. 2, f. 3r).

Pagination: Paper. Volume 1: fol. ii + 186 + xiv (blank) + 1 note; contemporary pagination in ink, [iv, I-III], IV-VII, [i, 1], 2-364, [xxviii], upper outer corners. Volume 2: fol. ii + 197 + iii (blank) + 3 notes (5 leaves); contemporary pagination in ink, [iv, I-III], IV-VI, [ii, 1], 2-386, [vi], upper outer corners.

Layout: Written in 29 (v. 1) and 27-28 (v. 2) long lines.

Script: In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt; accompanying notes also name Joaquin Hübbe as a copyist.

Binding: Late 19th-century half leather; paper label inside upper covers reads Encuadernacion de Felipe Montilla, Merida de Yucatan.

Origin: Copied in Mérida, Mexico, in 1870.

Cited in:

Described in Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection (Department of Archaeology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania, 1900), p. 3-4 (no. 3).

Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 649-650 (no. 68).

Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 138 (no. 1285).

Publications about:

Diccionario maya-español del Convento de San Francisco en Mérida. Mérida: 1870. Also Michelon, Oscar, ed. Diccionario de San Francisco. Biblioteca lingüística Americana, v. 2. Graz, Austria: Akadem. Druck- u. Verlagsanst, 1976.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 3

Contains:

Diccionario español-maya del Convento de San Francisco en Mérida.

OCLC:

249102821