Miscellanea maya.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

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

Contributor:

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

Brasseur de Bourbourg, abbé, 1814-1874

Cervera, Jose T.

Gibbs, George, 1815-1873

Jimeno, Florentino.

Pérez, Juan Pío, 1798-1859

Language:

English

German

Mayan languages

Nahuatl

Otomian languages

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Maya language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Mayan languages--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Cakchikel language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Chontal language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Chol language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Huastec language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Mam language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Natchez language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Nahuatl language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Nahuatl language.

Mayas.

Antiquities.

Apalachee language.

Mayan languages--Grammar.

Mayan languages.

Tzeltal language.

Quiché language.

Otomi language.

Natchez language.

Mam language.

Huastec language.

Chol language.

Chontal language.

Cakchikel language.

Maya language.

Mexico.

Otomi language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Quiché language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Tzeltal language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Maya language--Grammar.

Apalachee language--Texts.

Maya calendar.

Mayan languages--Writing.

Indians of Mexico--Languages.

Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Languages.

Indians of Central America.

Guatemala.

Language and languages.

Mayas--Mexico--Antiquities.

Mayas--Social life and customs.

Mexico--Antiquities.

Mexico--Languages.

Guatemala--Languages.

Genre:

Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

glossaries

calendars (documents)

maps (documents)

scrapbooks

clippings (information artifacts)

Manuscripts, Spanish.

Manuscripts, American.

Manuscripts, German.

Texts.

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:

365 leaves : paper ; 366-368 x 235-238 mm bound to 374 x 265 mm + 1 note (8 leaves)

Contained In:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 179

Place of Publication:

[1864-1873?]

Language Note:

Predominantly in Spanish, with some English and German, and vocabulary and grammatical examples in Mayan languages, including Maya, Cakchikel, Huastec, Mam, Qhiché, and Tzeltal, as well as Nahuatl, Otomi, and Natchez; and one text in Apalachee.

Summary:

Scrapbook, assembled by Daniel Garrison Brinton, of notes, manuscripts, and clippings of C. Hermann Berendt, on topics in Maya linguistics and ethnography. A table of contents in Spanish (f. 3) has 29 headings, organized in sections for grammar (f. 4-53), vocabulary (f. 54-74), and ethnology (f. 75-98). Grammar includes comparative alphabets of Mayan languages (Huastec, Mixtec, Mam, Otomi, Zapotec) and languages of Guatemala (Cakchiquel, Quiché, Tzutuhil), as well as notes on Maya grammar. Maya vocabularies include sexual and body parts, kinship, plants, maiz, animals. Languages in comparative vocabularies include Maya, Nahuatl, Otomi, Cakchiquel, Natchez, Tzental (Tzeltal?), Chontal, Quiché, Huastec, and Putum of Palenque (Chol?). Under ethnology are headings for the character of the Indians of the Yucatán; customs and superstitions of the Maya; calendars and time reckoning; hieroglyphics; antiquities; and ethnological map. Manuscripts by Berendt include a version of his essay Analytical alphabet for Mexican and Central American languages (f. 4); and comparative vocabularies: Putum/Tzental/Chontal (f. 57); Mexicano/Maya/Otomi (title page inscribed to George Gibbs, 1864; f. 59); Maya-Cakchiquel (f. 60); Maya-Chontal-Kiche-Cakchiquel--Huasteca-Mam-Pokonchi (f. 64); and counting words in Mayan languages (fold-out chart; f. 69r). A draft letter from Berendt to Gibbs, dated 1865, pertains to Gibbs's notes on numeral systems (f. 67). Berendt's annotated transcriptions of material from other authors include D.G. Brinton's The Natchez of Louisiana (f. 62); and Calendario maya, by Juan Pío Pérez, dated 1868 (between f. 80 and 81). Also included are two versions of Catalogo de una colección de antiguedades ... de Yucatan, Campeche y Tabasco, by Florentino Jimeno, one dated 1869, with a clipping dated Mérida, 1871 (between f. 88 and 89), and the other dated 1872, prefaced by a copy of a letter from abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg, dated 1871 (between f. 89 and 90). An 8-leaf booklet containing Berendt's copy of a 1688 text in Apalachee with Spanish translation, as published by Buckingham Smith, with Berendt's annotations on a comparison to Maya, and copies of other manuscript notes by Smith, was originally inserted at f. 63; it is now detached and housed in a separate folder shelved with the manuscript. Clippings include: Central American hieroglyphics (Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, New York, 5 April 1873), signed by Berendt (f. 86); and Spanish-language articles about Yucatan antiquities or localities, mostly from Mérida, dated 1866 (f. 95) and 1871-1872 (f. 90-91, 96-98), with two by Jose T. Cervera (f. 91, 96).

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from spine.

Item 179 is the first of three large scrapbooks (Items 179-181) compiled by Daniel Garrison Brinton from miscellaneous loose notes and materials of C. Hermann Berendt (Brinton, p. 32); the other two scrapbooks are entitled: Miscellanea centro-americana (Item 180), and Miscellanea historica et linguistica (Item 181).

Foliation: Paper, 365; 99 + xviii (blank), with a total of 248 additional leaves inserted between the scrapbook folios; 1-61, [1], 62-98; contemporary foliation in pencil, upper right recto. The manuscript proper comprises full and partial leaves tipped onto the foliated leaves, with additional leaves inserted on or between paper guards, either individually or as part of a sewn booklet. The count of 248 additional leaves includes a detached booklet of 8 leaves (f. 63) that is stored in a separate folder. In addition, six leaves are laid in: four had previously been pinned (f 9v, 36v, 75v, 93r), and two are leaves that have come loose from a manuscript tipped in between f. 57 and 58.

Script: Notes and manuscripts written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.

Decoration: small symbols related to the Mayan calendar (f. 79r); small sketches of sculptures at the ruins of Nohpat (f. 89r); handdrawn plans of the ruins of Kabah (f. 89r), and of the ruins in Uxmal (Casa del Adivino, Casa del gobernador; f. 89v); small sketches of passageways, arches, vessel (f. 90); map in red and blue ink of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec with linguistic groups labeled (f. 92); diagram of a circular area with place names labeled, under the title: Mapa de mani de Tutul xiu (f. 92v); small sketches of human figures (leaf laid in between f. 92 and 93; leaf tipped in preceding f. 58) and of tools (f. 72v).

Binding: 19th-century half leather (Label: Shipman's Patent Invoice & Scrap Book, patented June 13, 1871).

Condition: Scrapbook folios brown; two inserted manuscripts almost detached (f. 4, 58); some tipped in leaves have tears (fold-out chart, f. 69; leaf tipped in on paper guard preceding booklet at f. 59; two partial leaves tipped in by one corner, f. 87). One illustration (hand-drawn plan) has set creases that diminish its legibility (tipped in, f. 89v)..

Origin: Written or collected between approximately 1864 (f. 59) and 1873 (f. 86).

Cited in:

Described in Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection (Department of Arhaeology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania, 1900), p. 31-32 (no. 179).

Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 639 (no. 32).

Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 72 (no. 399).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 179

OCLC:

731221038