Bocabulario de la lengua cakchiquel / de el muy R[everendo] Padre Ximenez ; Fr. Antonio Garcia.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Ximénez, Francisco, 1666-approximately 1722.

Contributor:

Garcia, Antonio.

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

Language:

Mayan languages

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Cakchikel language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Cakchikel language.

Mayan languages--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc--Early works to 1800.

Mayan languages.

Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Languages--Early works to 1800.

Indians of Central America.

Language and languages.

Guatemala--Languages--Early works to 1800.

Guatemala.

Genre:

Codices.

glossaries

Manuscripts, Spanish.

Manuscripts, Latin American.

Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Controlled vocabularies.

Penn Provenance:

From the collection of Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp inside upper cover).

Physical Description:

80 leaves : paper ; 300 x 210 mm bound to 316 x 220 mm

Contained In:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 196

Place of Publication:

[Guatemala?], [1794?]

Language Note:

Spanish and Cakchikel.

Biography/History:

Dominican missionary and Spanish writer.

Summary:

A late 18th-century manuscript of an extensive vocabulary for the Cakchikel language by Francisco Ximénez, perhaps copied by Fr. Antonio Garcia. The words are arranged in an alphabetical order, with a final leaf on numerals and words to refer to number of days past and future. The penultimate leaf includes a colophon-like inscription, with initials standing for words, that suggests a date of 22 May 1794.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from caption title (f. 1).

Foliation: Paper, 80; modern foliation in pencil, lower left recto; f. 36-79 have contemporary foliation 9-52 in ink, upper right recto.

Layout: Written in 35 lines, with Cakchikel entry words at the left margin and slightly larger and the Spanish definitions indented from the left.

Script: Written in a cursive hand.

Binding: Late 18th- or early 19th-century vellum, with three leather thongs across the spine. Many leaves loose or detached.

Origin: Written in Guatemala in 1794 (possible date, f. 78)?

Cited in:

Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 390 (no. 4490).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 196

OCLC:

155932862