Arte de lengua maya

Name:

San Buenaventura, Gabriel de, active 1684

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1868

Description:

C. Hermann Berendt's fair manuscript copy of Gabriel de San Buenaventura's 1684 grammar of the Maya language, the first printed Maya grammar, including a facsimile title page and the front matter in Spanish. Berendt also compiled an index to the grammar (p. 159-163).

Language:

Spanish; Castilian; Mayan languages

Provenance:

From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).; Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878, former owner.; Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.

Subject:

Maya language -- Grammar; Mayan languages -- Grammar -- Early works to 1800; Indians of Mexico -- Languages -- Early works to 1800; Language and languages; Indians of Mexico -- Languages; Mayan languages -- Grammar; Mayan languages

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); grammars (instructional materials); Manuscripts, Mexican; Manuscripts, Spanish

Physical Description:

83 leaves : paper; 190 x 127 mm bound to 197 x 136 mm

Geographic Subject:

Mexico -- Languages -- Early works to 1800; Mexico

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from facsimile title page (p. [1]).; Pagination: Paper, 83; [ii, 1-3], 4-143, 145-146, 148-163, [164, ii]; page numbers in ink, upper outer corners. The omission of 144 and 147 is an error in pagination; this record refers to pagination as it appears in the manuscript.; Layout: Written in 23 long lines on lined paper.; Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt, primarily in black ink, with corrections, additions, and marginalia in blue ink.; Binding: Late 19th-century leather with minimal gold tooling; spine has Buenaventura, Ms., and a B at the tail of the spine for Berendt in gilt.; Origin: Copied in Mérida, Mexico, in 1868.; Spanish and Maya.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 700 Item 8

Collection:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection