Bocabulario de la lengua cakchiquel

Name:

Ximénez, Francisco, 1666-approximately 1722; Garcia, Antonio

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1794

Description:

A late 18th-century manuscript of an extensive vocabulary for the Cakchikel language by Francisco Ximénez, perhaps copied by Fr. Antonio Garcia. The words are arranged in an alphabetical order, with a final leaf on numerals and words to refer to number of days past and future. The penultimate leaf includes a colophon-like inscription, with initials standing for words, that suggests a date of 22 May 1794.

Language:

Spanish; Castilian; Mayan languages

Provenance:

From the collection of Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp inside upper cover).; Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.

Subject:

Cakchikel language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc; 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; Cakchikel language

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); glossaries; Manuscripts, Spanish; controlled vocabularies

Physical Description:

80 leaves : paper; 300 x 210 mm bound to 316 x 220 mm

Geographic Subject:

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

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Dominican missionary and Spanish writer.; Title from caption title (f. 1).; Foliation: Paper, 80; modern foliation in pencil, lower left recto; f. 36-79 have contemporary foliation 9-52 in ink, upper right recto.; Layout: Written in 35 lines, with Cakchikel entry words at the left margin and slightly larger and the Spanish definitions indented from the left.; Script: Written in a cursive hand.; Binding: Late 18th- or early 19th-century vellum, with three leather thongs across the spine. Many leaves loose or detached.; Origin: Written in Guatemala in 1794 (possible date, f. 78)?; Spanish and Cakchikel.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 700 Item 196

Collection:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection