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Chilam Balam : artículos y fragmentos de manuscritos antiguos en lengua maya / colectados y copiados en facsímile por C. Hermann Berendt, M.D.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 700 Item 49
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Standardized Title:
- Books of Chilam Balam.
- Language:
- Mayan languages
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Maya language--Texts.
- Maya language.
- Language and languages.
- Indians of Mexico--Languages.
- Calendars.
- Mexico.
- Maya calendar.
- Maya astronomy.
- Mayas--History.
- Mayas.
- History.
- Calendars--Early works to 1800.
- Indians of Mexico--Languages--Early works to 1800.
- Mexico--Languages--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- Texts.
- Codices.
- calendars (documents)
- chronicles
- diagrams
- Manuscripts, Mexican.
- Manuscripts, Spanish.
- Penn Provenance:
- From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).
- Physical Description:
- 147 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 268 x 209 (200 x 135) mm bound to 273 x 225 mm
- Contained In:
- Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 49
- Place of Publication:
- Mérida (Mexico), 1868-1870.
- Language Note:
- Maya, with brief introductions in Spanish.
- Summary:
- Manuscript facsimiles of sections of the books of Chilam Balam of Chumayel and of Tizimin, with additional excerpts from the books of Chilam Balam of Kaua and of Ixil. The sections copied focus on calendrical and historical information, with dates in the texts ranging from 1513 to 1824. Five items laid in, consisting of one diagram between pages 38 and 39 and miscellaneous notes inside the back cover.
- Contents:
- 1.pp.1-74: Chilam Balam de Chumayel.
- 2.pp.75-80: Chilam Balam de Yxil.
- 3.pp.81-92: Chilam Balam de Káua.
- 4.pp.93-96: Cuaderno de Teabo.
- 5.pp.97-100: Chilam Balam de Ixil.
- 6.pp.101-158: Chilam Balam de Tizimin.
- 7.pp.159-200: Chilam Balam de Chumayel [additional material].
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (f. 2r).
- Pagination: Paper, xxx, 200, lxiv (blank); page numbers in red ink, upper center. Foliation in black, upper right recto; not all pages have foliation, and the pages with foliation were rearranged before pagination was added.
- Script: In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
- Decoration: Sections from the Chilam Balam de Chumayel are heavily illustrated with faces and astronomical or calendrical diagrams, in black and red ink.
- Binding: Contemporary cloth over marbled boards; label inside front cover, "Encuadernacion de Felipe Montilla, Merida de Yucatan."
- Origin: Copied in Mérida, Mexico, in 1868 (f. 2r) and 1870 (pp. 101, 161).
- Cited in:
- Described in Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection (Department of Archaeology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania, 1900), p. 13 (no. 49).
- Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 645 (no. 54).
- Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 120 (no. 1045).
- Publications about:
- Gordon, George Byron, ed. The book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel. In Anthropological publications, v. 5 (Philadelphia: University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1913).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 49
- Contains:
- Chilam Balam de Chumayel (Manuscript)
- Chilam Balam de Tizimín (Manuscript)
- Book of Chilam Balam of Kaua.
- Chilam Balam de Ixil.
- OCLC:
- 155930558
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