Extracto de un cuaderno m[anu]s[crito] "Metodo de confesar en lengua maya," an[n]o de 1803

Contributor:

Berendt, C. Hermann 1817-1878 (former owner); Brinton, Daniel G. 1837-1899 (former owner)

Name:

Echeverría, Florentino Gimeno

Date:

1853

Description:

Handwritten copy of an extract from a manual for confessors of 1803, in Spanish and Maya, probably in the hand of Florentino Gimeno Echevarría (Echeverría?), of Campeche, who at the time was the owner of the original manuscript (for the original, see Ms. Coll. 700, Item 26; its title carries the slightly different title: Modo de confesar en lengua maya); the copy corresponds to approximately ten pages in the first quarter of the original (beginning at the top of the ninth page of the original, f. 6r). The title page of the present copy, in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt, includes his notes, signed by him (f. i recto), giving details about the original manuscript, and making reference to a communication about it from Echevarría; a passage in the notes citing the date 1647 is stricken out. In his notes Berendt also highlights a reference in the manual (found on f. 6v-7r in the present copy) that suggests the anonymous author was himself a friar responsible for the parish of Tixcacal (in the former province Cupul, vicinity of Tekom) and a native of Campeche. For a copy in Berend'ts hand of the beginning pages of the same manual, see Ms. Coll. 700, the fourth item in the bound volume containing Items 46 and 47; in the latter copy the last name of the owner of the manuscript is spelled: Echeverría.

Language:

Spanish; Castilian

Provenance:

Copied from an original manuscript that was, at the time, in the possession of Florentino Gimeno Echeverría, in Campeche, Mexico. In September 1870, Echeverría gave the manuscript to C. Hermann Berendt as a gift, and today it is part of the present collection (Ms. Coll. 700, Item 26).; From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on some items contained in the same file, entitled Mapas etnológicos; no ex libris stamp on the present manuscript).

Subject:

Maya language -- Texts; Maya language; Sacraments -- Catholic Church; Confession -- Catholic Church; Confession -- Catholic Church -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Sacraments -- Catholic Church -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Indians of Mexico -- Languages; Language and languages

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Texts; Manuals (instructional materials); Translations (documents); Glossaries; Codices; Manuscripts, Spanish; Manuscripts, Latin American; Handbooks and manuals

Physical Description:

8 leaves : paper; 329-330 x 112-116 (300-325 x 112-116) mm

Geographic Subject:

Mexico -- Languages; Mexico

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Item 243 is one of 7 items (Items 242-248), on disparate topics related to the Indians of Central America, that were contained in a cardboard portfolio labelled: Mapas etnológicos.; Title from title page (f. i recto).; Foliation: Paper, 8; [i], 1-7; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.; Layout: Written in 38-40 long lines, with Spanish and Maya on facing pages; lines ruled in lead.; Script: Probably written in the hand of Florentino Gimeno Echeverría, with title page in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.; Binding: Sewn.; Origin: Written in Campeche, Mexico, probably sometime between 1853 and 1870 (if indeed the copy was made at the request of C. Hermann Berendt, as appears to be the case). Berendt first arrived in Mexico around 1853, and the copy would have been made for him some time before he assumed ownership of the original, in 1870.; Spanish and Maya.

Physical Location:

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

Collection:

Mapas etnológicos; Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection