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Arte y vocabulario de la lengua cakchiquel / por el R. P. Fray Benito de Villacañas de la Orden de Santo Domingo.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 700 Item 51
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Villacañas, Benito de, approximately 1537-1610.
- Language:
- Mayan languages
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Cakchikel language--Grammar.
- Cakchikel language.
- Cakchikel language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
- Mayan languages--Grammar--Early works to 1800.
- Mayan languages.
- Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Languages--Early works to 1800.
- Indians of Central America.
- Language and languages.
- Mayan languages--Grammar.
- Guatemala--Languages.
- Guatemala.
- Genre:
- Codices.
- grammars (instructional materials)
- glossaries
- Manuscripts, Spanish.
- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
- Controlled vocabularies.
- Penn Provenance:
- C. Hermann Berendt made this copy "from the only copy known, now or late in the library of the Ethnological Society" (Brinton); his signature is at the end of the work (p. 346).
- From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).
- Physical Description:
- 179 leaves : paper ; 251 x 200 mm bound to 257 x 212 mm
- Contained In:
- Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 51
- Place of Publication:
- [New York,], 1871.
- Language Note:
- Spanish and Cakchikel.
- Biography/History:
- Born in 1537, Villacañas entered the Dominican order in Mexico in 1573 and spent the rest of his life working in Guatemala until he died in the Dominican Convent of Guatemala in 1610.
- Summary:
- A 19th-century copy of Villacañas's 16th-century grammar of the Cakchiquel language (pp. 1-39) and Spanish-Cakchiquel vocabulary (pp. 41-340), followed by short lists of numbers and animal names. Pasted to the recto of f. 1 is an index; pasted to the verso is a brief biography of Villacañas in Spanish, which concludes with a list of six works attributed to Villancañas, including the Arte y vocabulario.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (f. 2r).
- Pagination: Paper, viii, 346, iv; contemporary page numbers in ink, upper center.
- Script: In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
- Binding: 19th-century boards (blank book purchased in New York).
- Origin: Copied in New York in 1871.
- Cited in:
- Described in Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection (Department of Archaeology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania, 1900), pp. 13-14 (no. 51).
- Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 680 (no. 171).
- Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 374 (no. 4301).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 51
- OCLC:
- 155927542
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