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Platicas sobre los mandamientos del decálogo en lengua kekchi : del archivo de la parroquia de Cahabon.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 700 Item 80
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Mayan languages
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church--Sermons.
- Catholic Church.
- Ten commandments.
- Mayan languages.
- Kekchi language.
- Ten commandments--Sermons.
- Marriage--Sermons.
- Marriage.
- Kekchi language--Texts.
- Mayan languages--Texts.
- Sermons, Kekchi.
- Sermons, Spanish.
- Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Languages.
- Indians of Central America.
- Guatemala.
- Language and languages.
- Guatemala--Languages.
- Genre:
- Sermons.
- Codices.
- sermons
- translations (documents)
- Manuscripts, Spanish.
- Texts.
- Penn Provenance:
- From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page of volume and title page of first sermon).
- Physical Description:
- 99 leaves : paper ; 165 x 112 mm bound to 171 x 128 mm
- Contained In:
- Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 80
- Place of Publication:
- Cobán [Guatemala], 1856.
- Language Note:
- Spanish and Kekchi.
- Summary:
- Ten sermons on the ten commandments by the parish priest of Cobán, translated by a Kekchi Indian of Cobán, with Spanish and Kekchi on facing pages, dated 1855-1856, followed by one sermon on marriage in Kekchi, dated 1853. The sermons were written on different types and sizes of paper and were bound together later.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (f. i r).
- Foliation: Paper, [iii, 96]; modern pencil foliation, lower right recto, not including blank interleaving added between sermons at the time of binding.
- Watermarks: Letters C, I, V, and Y on the paper used for the third through tenth sermons (ff. 21-84).
- Binding: Late 19th-century half leather.
- Origin: Translations were made by the order of the parish priest (title page note); Berendt received the documents from the parish archives of Cahabón, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala.
- Cited in:
- Described in Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection (Department of Archaeology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania, 1900), p. 18 (no. 80).
- Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), pp. 669-670 (no. 131).
- Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 296 (no. 3321).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 80
- OCLC:
- 155930814
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