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Arte de lengua cakchiquel : año de 1754 / del usso de Fr. Estevan Torresano.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 700 Item 54
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Torresano, Estevan.
- Language:
- Mayan languages
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Cakchikel language--Grammar.
- Cakchikel language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
- Quiché language--Grammar.
- Quiché language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
- Tzutuhil language--Grammar.
- Tzutuhil language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
- Mayan languages--Grammar--Early works to 1800.
- Mayan languages--Writing--Early works to 1800.
- Mayan languages--Writing.
- Mayan languages--Grammar.
- Mayan languages.
- Tzutuhil language.
- Quiché language.
- Cakchikel language.
- Guatemala--Languages.
- Guatemala.
- Language and languages.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- glossaries
- grammars (instructional materials)
- Manuscripts, Spanish.
- Manuscripts, Digital.
- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
- Controlled vocabularies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Copied from a copy made by or for E. G. Squier (1821-1888) from the 1754 original in the Bibliothèque Nationale (note on p. 2).
- From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page, p. 1).
- Physical Description:
- 90 leaves : paper ; 165 x 103 mm bound to 170 x 115 mm
- Contained In:
- Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 54
- Place of Publication:
- [United States?], [between 1850 and 1875?]
- Language Note:
- Spanish and Cakchiquel, with some Quiché and Tzutuhil.
- Summary:
- A 19th-century copy of Torresano's 1754 grammar for the Cakchiquel language based on Flores' Arte de la lengua metropolitana del reyno cakchiquel of 1753 (note on p. 2). It includes a section on counting in Cakchiquel (pp. 109-126); "Parallelo de las lenguas Kiche, Cakchiquel y [Tz]utuhil," a comparison of some of the grammar points of the three languages and a vocabulary list in four columns comparing common words in the three languages with translations in Spanish (pp. 127-148); "Ortographia para la buena pronunciacion de estas tres languas," a discussion of the letters which these languages have in common with Spanish and those letters omitted, as well as the Parra letters used to represent the six sounds unique to these three languages (pp. 149-155); and a number of petitions and prayers in Spanish alongside Cakchiquel translations (p. 159-179).
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (p. 1).
- Pagination: Paper, 180; page numbers stamped in blue ink, upper outer corners.
- Origin: Copied, perhaps in the United States, between 1850 and 1875.
- Cited in:
- Described in Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection (Department of Archaeology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania, 1900), p. 14 (no. 54).
- Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 679 (no. 164).
- Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 365 (no. 4186).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 54
- OCLC:
- 155927511
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