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Novena de Christo crucificado : con otras oraciones en lengua maya / compuestas por el R. P. Fr. Pedro Beltran de Santa Rosa.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 700 Item 21
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Beltrán de Santa Rosa, Pedro.
- Language:
- Mayan languages
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Maya language--Texts--Early works to 1800.
- Maya language.
- Mayan languages--Texts--Early works to 1800.
- Mayan languages.
- Indians of Mexico--Languages--Early works to 1800.
- Indians of Mexico.
- Language and languages.
- Indians of Mexico--Languages.
- Mexico--Languages--Early works to 1800.
- Mexico.
- Genre:
- Codices.
- prayer books
- translations (documents)
- Manuscripts, Mexican.
- Manuscripts, Spanish.
- Texts.
- Penn Provenance:
- Copied from a published copy in the possession of Don Pedro Regil y Peon, Mérida (note, p. 1).
- From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).
- Physical Description:
- 55 leaves : paper ; 191 x 130 mm bound to 197 x 134 mm
- Contained In:
- Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 21
- Place of Publication:
- Mérida, 1868.
- Language Note:
- Spanish and Maya.
- Biography/History:
- Former custodian of the province of San Joseph de Yucatan; revisor of books for the Holy Office (title page).
- Summary:
- A 19th-century copy of Beltrán de Santa Rosa's 1740 book of prayers in Maya and a dialogue or catechism in Maya with a facing translation in Spanish, with extensive front matter in Spanish; followed by a copy of the Maya texts from the second edition of Beltrán de Santa Rosa's Declaracion de la doctrina christiana en el idioma yucateco (1757), including the Lord's prayer, Ave Maria, Apostle's Creed, commandments, sacraments, articles of faith, and dialogues or catechisms in Maya. Berendt indicates in a note (p. [86]) that he has omitted the Spanish discussion at the beginning of the Declaracion (pp. 2-22 in the printed text).
- Contents:
- 1.pp.1-83: Novena de Christo crucificado con otras oraciones en lengua maya.
- 2.pp.[84]-105: Declaracion de la doctrina christiana en el idioma yucateco.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (p. 1).
- Pagination: Paper, 55; [1-5], 6-83, [84-86], 87-105, [v (blank)]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
- Script: In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
- Binding: Late 19th-century leather; upper cover detached.
- Origin: Copied in Mérida, 1868 (note, p. 1).
- Cited in:
- Described in Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection (Department of Archaeology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania, 1900), p. 7 (no. 21).
- Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), pp. 634-635 (no. 19).
- Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 66 (no. 374).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 21
- Contains:
- Lord's prayer. Maya.
- Ave Maria. Maya.
- Apostles' Creed. Maya.
- Ten commandments. Maya.
- Declaracion de la doctrina christiana en el idioma yucateco.
- OCLC:
- 155930793
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