Ortografia en lengua kekchí / traducida por José Domingo Coy, indio de Coban, en la ciudad de Coban, año de 1870; copiado de su original en Coban, Abril de 1875 por Dr. C. H. Berendt.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Coy, José Domingo.

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):

Kekchi language--Orthography and spelling.

Kekchi language.

Mayan languages--Writing.

Mayan languages.

Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Languages.

Indians of Central America.

Guatemala.

Language and languages.

Guatemala--Languages.

Genre:

Codices.

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:

20 leaves : paper ; 215 x 150 (154 x 103) mm bound to 221 x 161 mm

Contained In:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 72

Place of Publication:

Coban [Guatemala], 1875.

Language Note:

Kekchi, with Spanish title page and headings.

Summary:

C. Hermann Berendt's 1875 copy of José Domingo Coy's treatise on Kekchi orthography (also in Ms. Coll. 700 as Item 70), written in question and answer format and mostly focusing on accents and punctuation. The list of accent types at the end of the first part of the original is cut short. At the end is a partial alphabetical list (A-J, with F missing) of words and phrases, with a note added in Spanish by Berendt at the end to say that the rest of the work has been lost.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (f. 3r).

Pagination: Paper, 20; [iv], 32, [iv]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper center.

Script: In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.

Binding: Late 19th-century half leather.

Origin: Copied in Cobán in 1875.

Cited in:

Described in Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection (Department of Archaeology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania, 1900), p. 17 (no. 72).

Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), pp. 648-649 (no. 65).

Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 130 (no. 1176).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 72

OCLC:

155930467