Lengua maya : miscelanea. [Volume] I-III.

Format:

Manuscript

Microformat

Author/Creator:

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

Language:

English

French

German

Mayan languages

Nahuatl

Otomian languages

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Indians of Mexico--Languages.

Indians of Mexico.

Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Languages.

Indians of Central America.

Guatemala.

Language and languages.

Indians of Central America--Belize--Languages.

Belize.

Mexico--Languages.

Mexico.

Guatemala--Languages.

Belize--Languages.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

3 volumes (63, 121, 163 leaves) ; 35 mm

35 mm

monochrome

positive

Place of Publication:

Providence, R. I. ; Sacluc, Guatemala ; Mérida, Mexico, 1864-1868.

Language Note:

Spanish, Maya, Chol (Putum), Itzá dialect (Petén), Cakchikel, Nahuatl, and Otomi (Othomi); with occasional use of French, German, Latin, and at least one remark in English.

Summary:

Collection of copies of or extracts from various documents concerning Mayan languages, made by C. Hermann Berendt.

Notes:

Title from title pages.

Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.

Origin: Written in Providence, R. I., in 1864, and evidently continued during travel in Sacluc, Guatemala, in 1867, and Mérida, Mexico, in 1868.

Microfilm.

Cited in:

Described in Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection (Department of Archaeology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania, 1900), p. 11-12 (no. 42, 43, 44).

Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 660-661 (no. 104).

Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 70-71 (no. 391).

OCLC:

24866956