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Popol vuh : Le livre sacré et les mythes de l'antiquité américaine, avec les livres héroïques et historiques des Quichés ... / Texte quiché et traduction française en regard, accompagnée de notes philologiques et d'un commentaire sur la mythologie et les migrations des peuples anciens de l'Amérique ... par l'abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection F1465.P8 P67 1861
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Collection de documents dans les langues indigènes, pour servir à l'étude de l'histoire et de la philologie de l'Amérique ancienne ; v. 1.
- Collection de documents dans les langues indigènes, pour servir à l'étude de l'histoire et de la philologie de l'Amérique ancienne ; v. 1
- Standardized Title:
- Popol vuh.
- Language:
- French
- Mayan languages
- Subjects (All):
- Quiché Indians--Religion and mythology.
- Quiché Indians.
- Quiché Indians--Guatemala--History.
- Manuscripts, Quiché.
- Maya mythology.
- Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Languages.
- Indians of Central America.
- History.
- Guatemala.
- Language and languages.
- Guatemala--Antiquities.
- Antiquities.
- Popol vuh.
- Penn Provenance:
- Brinton, Daniel Garrison, 1837-1899 (former owner) (stamp) (Brinton Collection copy)
- Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878 (former owner) (Brinton Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages, cclxxix pages, 1 unnumbered page, 367 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps. ; 25 cm.
- Other Title:
- Livre sacré et les mythes de l'antiquité américaine
- Collection de documents dans les langues indigènes, pour servir à l'étude de l'histoire et de la philologie de l'Amérique ancienne
- Place of Publication:
- Paris : Arthus Bertrand ... ; London : Trübner and Co. ..., 1861.
- Notes:
- Notes and commentary in French; the text of Popol vuh in Quiché and French on facing pages.
- A spanish translation by F. Ximénez was published in 1857 under title: Las historias del origen de los Indios de esta provincia de Guatemala.
- Includes index.
- Errata on p. [1] at end.
- Local Notes:
- From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton.
- Brinton Collection copy has the ownership stamp of Daniel Garrison Brinton in purple ink on front free endpaper and t.p.
- Brinton Collection copy spine and left board detached from text block.
- Brinton Collection copy has ms. annotations and marks in pencil on p. [2] and [3] (4th series) of the Popol vuh portion of text.
- Brinton Collection copy has a folded leaf with ms. bibliographic notes in black ink laid in.
- Cited in:
- Brinton, D. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection, no. 59
- Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America, 7423
- Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton, no. 612, p. 88
- OCLC:
- 7457119
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