[Calendarios de los indios de Guatemala].

Format:

Manuscript

Contributor:

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

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

Language:

Mayan languages

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Calendars--Early works to 1800.

Calendars.

Mayan languages--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc--Early works to 1800.

Mayan languages.

Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Languages--Early works to 1800.

Indians of Central America.

Language and languages.

Guatemala--Languages--Early works to 1800.

Guatemala.

Genre:

Codices.

calendars (documents)

Manuscripts, Spanish.

Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Controlled vocabularies.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

54 leaves : paper, illustrations; 266 x 208 mm bound to 273 x 220 mm

Contained In:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 57 and Item 58

Place of Publication:

[Guatemala], [1878]

Language Note:

Spanish, Quiché, and Cakchiquel.

Summary:

Works on the calendars of the Quiché and Cakchikel Indians copied by C. Hermann Berendt and bound together.

Contents:

1. ff.1r-36v: Calendario de los indios de Guatemala, 1722, Kiché.

2. ff.41r-54r: Calendario de los indios de Guatemala, 1685, Cakchiquel.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title for volume supplied by cataloger based on the title pages (ff. 1r, 41r) of the component works.

Individual records for the component works may be found under the title Calendario de los indios de Guatemala.

Additional notes on the Quiché calendar (and perhaps others) pasted inside the front cover and to the front flyleaf.

Pagination: Paper, 54; ii, [I-III], IV-XI, diagram, 4 ff. blank, [1], 2-50, 5 ff. blank, [1-3], 4-27; contemporary page numbers in ink, upper center.

Script: In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.

Binding: 19th-century half leather.

Origin: Copied in Guatemala in 1877 and 1878.

Cited in:

Described in Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection (Department of Archaeology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania, 1900), p. 15 (nos. 57 and 58).

Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 644 (nos. 50 and 51).

Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), pp. 104-105 (nos. 841 and 842).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Items 57 and 58

Contains:

Calendario de los indios de Guatemala, 1685, Cakchiquel.

Calendario de los indios de Guatemala, 1722, Kiché.

OCLC:

155927553