Modo de confesar en lengua maya.

Format:

Manuscript

Contributor:

Echeverría, Florentino Gimeno, former owner.

Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878, former owner.

Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.

Language:

Mayan languages

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Confession--Catholic Church--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Confession.

Sacraments--Catholic Church--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Sacraments.

Maya language--Texts.

Maya language.

Sacraments--Catholic Church.

Confession--Catholic Church.

Indians of Mexico--Languages.

Indians of Mexico.

Mexico--Languages.

Mexico.

Language and languages.

Genre:

Texts.

Codices.

manuals (instructional materials)

translations (documents)

Manuscripts, Mexican.

Manuscripts, Spanish.

Handbooks and manuals.

Penn Provenance:

Gift to C. Hermann Berendt from Don Florentino Gimeno Echeverría, in Campeche, Mexico, 1870.

From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).

Physical Description:

39 leaves : paper ; 196 x 152 mm bound to 205 x 168 mm

Contained In:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 26

Place of Publication:

[Tixcacalcupul?, Yucatán, Mexico], 1803.

Language Note:

Spanish and Maya.

Summary:

Manual for confessors in Spanish and Maya. C. Hermann Berendt added a new title page in 1870 and on the verso facing his title page wrote a note about the author and pasted a rough pencil map showing the location of Tixcacalcupul.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from caption title (f. 2).

Foliation: Paper, 39; i, 1-38, modern pencil foliation, lower right recto; f. 4-37 are also numbered 3-36 in green ink, upper left recto. This record follows the pencil foliation.

Layout: Written in two columns of 28-30 lines, Spanish on the left, Maya on the right.

Binding: Late 19th-century half leather; f. 1-38 mounted on guards.

Origin: Possibly written at the Franciscan convent in Tixcacalcupul (Berendt note, f. i verso), 1803.

Cited in:

Described in Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection (Department of Archaeology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania, 1900), p. 8 (no. 26).

Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 665 (no. 114).

Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 258 (no. 2827).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 26

OCLC:

155932814