Diccionario español-maya de Ticul, 1690

Name:

Pérez, Juan Pío, 1798-1859

Timespan:

Early works to 1800; Early works to 1700

Date:

1870

Description:

Third-generation copy of a 17th-century Spanish-Mayan dictionary, now lost, found in the parish archives of Ticul, Mexico, in 1836 and previously copied by the Yucatecan linguist Juan Pío Pérez in 1836 and 1847. The Spanish-Maya dictionary also includes a list of Mayan words for various relatives (p. 259) and a list of Mayan words with similar pronunciations but different meanings (p. 262). Followed in the same volume by a copy of the corresponding Mayan-Spanish dictionary compiled by Pérez in 1847.

Language:

Spanish; Castilian

Provenance:

Copied from Juan Pío Pérez's 1847 copy of the Vocabulario de la lengua maya que comienza en romance, compuesto de varios autores de esta lengua and the Maya-Spanish dictionary compiled by Pérez.; From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).; Berendt, C. Hermann 1817-1878, former owner.; Brinton, Daniel G. 1837-1899, former owner.

Subject:

Spanish language -- Dictionaries -- Early works to 1700; Spanish language; Language and languages; Indians of Mexico -- Languages; Maya language; Spanish language -- Dictionaries -- Maya; Maya language -- Dictionaries -- Spanish; Indians of Mexico -- Languages -- Early works to 1800

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Dictionaries; Codices; Glossaries; Manuscripts, Spanish; Manuscripts, Mexican; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

282 leaves : paper; 281 x 212 (185 x 130) mm bound to 289 x 237 mm

Geographic Subject:

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

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title pages (f. 2r, 142r).; Pagination: Paper, fol. i + 138 + iv + 121 + xviii (blank); contemporary pagination in ink, [ii, I-III], IV-VIII, 267, [ix, 1], 2-241, [xxxvii], upper outer corners.; Layout: Written in 30 long lines.; Script: In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.; Binding: Late 19th-century half leather; paper label inside upper cover reads Encuadernacion de Felipe Montilla, Merida de Yucatan.; Origin: Copied in Mérida, Mexico, in 1870.; Spanish and Maya.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 700 Item 2

Collection:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection