Calendario de los indios de Guatemala

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1884

Description:

Copies of three works on the calendars of the Indians of Guatemala, the first on the calendar of the Cakchikel Indians, and the other two on that of the Quiché Indians. The copies were evidently made either by or at the direction of Daniel Garrison Brinton, probably from other existing copies, and bound together. The middle work is only a partial copy, together with an English translation of the introduction, which gives general information on the history of the Indians in Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán, and their religion.

Language:

English

Provenance:

From the collection of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Library bookplate for the Daniel Garrison Brinton Library; inside upper cover).; Brinton, Daniel G. 1837-1899, former owner.

Subject:

Maya calendar -- Early works to 1800; Quiché calendar; Quiché calendar -- Early works to 1800; Quiché language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. -- Early works to 1800; Quiché Indians -- Religion; Cakchikel language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. -- Early works to 1800; Calendars -- Early works to 1800; Mayan languages -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. -- Early works to 1800; Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Languages -- Early works to 1800; Language and languages; Indians of Central America; Mayan languages; Calendars; Cakchikel language; Quiché language; Maya calendar

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

calendars (documents); glossaries; codices (bound manuscripts); Manuscripts, American; controlled vocabularies; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

52 leaves : paper; 250-267 x 200 mm bound to 273 x 209 mm

Geographic Subject:

Guatemala -- Languages -- Early works to 1800; Guatemala

Rights:

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Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from spine.; Individual records for the component works may be found under their individual titles (see contents note, below).; Foliation: Paper, 52; 1-52; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. The manuscript occupies only the rectos of leaves; Script: Partially typed and partially written in an unidentified hand.; Binding: Late 19th-century boards.; Origin: Items 236 and 238 were probably copied in Philadelphia, Pa., circa 1884. The title pages of those two items are typed on the verso of a form letter on letterhead of Daniel Garrison Brinton, as professor of ethnology and archaeology at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, dated 1884. Item 237 was presumably also copied in Philadelphia around the same time.; Table of contents: 1. ff. 1-20: Calendario de los indios de Guatemala, 1685, cakchiquel (Calendar of the Cakchiquel Indians of Guatemala, 1685).; Table of contents: 2. ff. 21-34: Kalendario conservado hasta el dia por los sacerdoees [i.e. sacerdotes] del sol en Ixtlavacan, pueblo descendiente de la nacion kiche, descubierto por el presbitero Vicente Hernandez Spina, Santa Catarina Ixtlavacan, agosto 12 de 1854 (Calendar preserved till the present time by the priests of the sun in Ixtlavacan, a community descended from the Kiche nation, discovered by the presbyter Vicente Hernandez Spina, Santa Catarina Ixtlavacan, August the 12th, 1854).; Table of contents: 3. ff. 35-52: Calendario de los indios de Guatemala, 1722, kiche (Calendar of the Kiche Indians of Guatemala, 1722).; English, Quiché, Cakchikel, and Spanish.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 700 Item 236, Item 237 and Item 238

Collection:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection