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Annotations : to Léon de Rosny's L'interprétation des anciens textes mayas.
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878.
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Mayan languages
- Subjects (All):
- Mayan languages--Writing.
- Mayan languages.
- Mayan languages--Grammar.
- Maya language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
- Maya language.
- Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Languages.
- Indians of Central America.
- Guatemala.
- Language and languages.
- Indians of Central America--Belize--Languages.
- Belize.
- Indians of Mexico--Languages.
- Indians of Mexico.
- Guatemala--Languages.
- Mexico--Languages.
- Mexico.
- Belize--Languages.
- Genre:
- translations (documents)
- glossaries
- Manuscripts, French.
- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
- Controlled vocabularies.
- Penn Provenance:
- From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).
- Physical Description:
- 48 leaves : paper ; 211 x 131 mm bound to 215 x 138 mm
- Contained In:
- Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 15
- Other Title:
- Interprétation des anciens textes mayas.
- Place of Publication:
- [1875?]
- Language Note:
- French, English, and German, with Maya examples and vocabulary.
- Summary:
- Published copy of Léon de Rosny's L'interprétation des anciens textes mayas (Paris: Gustave Bossange, 1875), with numerous annotations and corrections by C. Hermann Berendt throughout the text. Rosny's work includes an overview of Mayan grammar (p. 13-34), selected texts with translations (p. 35-46), and a Maya-French vocabulary (p. 47-70), followed by book advertisements (Bulletin de Publicité orientale et américaine; 16 p.) and a statement about the Société américaine de France (8 p.). On one of the tipped-in leaves (front free endpaper), Berendt provides an overview of his evaluation of the first 5 columns of Rosny's vocabulary (Die 5 ersten Spalten v. Rosnys "Vocabulaire M.-Fr."), categorizing those 133 entries under headings such as: correct word, correct meaning; or: correct word, incorrect meaning. Additional entries from the 6th column are made in red ink, up to 163.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger; title for book on printed title page (p. [3]) is L'interprétation des anciens textes mayas.
- Pagination: Paper, ii + 48 + ii leaves; [1-5], 6-70, [71-73], [1-2], 3-16, [1-3], 4-8. Varying-sized leaves of notepaper tipped in as follows: 2 on inside upper cover; 3 on recto of front free endpaper; 1 on recto of final back free endpaper.
- Script: Annotations written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
- Binding: Late 19th-century quarter calf over marbled boards; partial split between front pastedown and front free endpaper.
- Origin: Written ca. 1875.
- Cited in:
- Described in Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection (Department of Archaeology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania, 1900), p. 6 (no. 15).
- Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 671-672 (no. 137).
- Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 321 (no. 3605).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item15
- OCLC:
- 456547848
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