Discurso para el descendimiento del Señor / por Don Francisco Carvajal, presbitero.

Format:

• Manuscript

Author/Creator:

• Carvajal, Francisco Leon, 1790-1869.

Contributor:

• Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878, former owner.
• Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.

Language:

• Latin
• Mayan languages
• Spanish

Subjects (All):

• Jesus Christ--Burial.
• Jesus Christ.
• Burial.
• Burial of Jesus Christ.
• Catholic Church--Sermons.
• Catholic Church.
• Language and languages.
• Indians of Mexico--Languages.
• Mayan languages.
• Maya language.
• Mexico.
• Sermons, Maya.
• Maya language--Texts.
• Maya language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
• Mayan languages--Texts--Early works to 1800.
• Indians of Mexico--Languages--Early works to 1800.
• Mexico--Languages--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

• Sermons.
• Texts.
• sermons
• glossaries
• Manuscripts, Mexican.
• Manuscripts, Spanish.
• Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
• Controlled vocabularies.

Penn Provenance:

• Copied from a manuscript in the possession of the parish of Santiago in Mérida, Presbitero Don Nic. Delgado.
• From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on collective title page).

Physical Description:

pages 77-116 : paper ; 191 x 121 mm bound to 198 x 135 mm

Contained In:

• Coleccion de platicas doctrinales y sermones en lengua maya
• Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 46

Place of Publication:

Mérida, 1868.

Language Note:

Maya, with Latin words in sermon and with title page, notes, and instructions in Spanish.

Biography/History:

Parish priest of Ternax and brother of Don José Segundo Carbajal, governor of Yucatan, 1829-1832 (Berendt note, p. 78).

Summary:

A sermon or talk on the descent from the Cross, with a description of the crucifixion and suffering of Christ and parenthetical instructions to the priest in Spanish for the reenactment in church of the descent of Christ from the Cross (Weeks). A vocabulary list translating Maya words and phrases into Spanish follows the sermon (p. 114-116).

Notes:

• Ms. component part.
• Title from title page (p. 77).
• Pagination: Paper, 20; 77-116; page numbers stamped in blue ink, upper outer corners.
• Layout: Written in 22 long lines.
• Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt, with Latin words and Spanish instructions in italics.
• Origin: Copied in Mérida in November 1868 (note, p. 77).
• Item 46 is bound and shelved with Item 47.

Cited in:

• Described in Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection (Department of Archaeology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania, 1900), p. 12 (no. 46).
• Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 652-653 (no. 76).
• Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 109 (no. 903).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 46

OCLC:

155932805