Pláticas de la historia sagrada en lengua cacchí : con un fragmento de un tratado por Fr. Domingo de Vico

Contributor:

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

Name:

Vico, Domingo de, 1485-1555

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1700

Description:

An 18th-century copy of an earlier manuscript, with title page and table of contents added by C. Hermann Berendt in 1875. The manuscript contains sermons on Judith, Esther and Mordecai, King Solomon, Jacob's ladder, and Moses in Egypt; praises of the Virgin Mary, with the heading Chapter 28; and part of a treatise by Fr. Domingo de Vico, all in Kekchi.

Language:

Mayan languages

Provenance:

Found with an 18th-century collection of sermons in Kekchi, which was purchased by Domingo Koy (Berendt note, f. [i] verso) and is Ms. Coll. 700 Item 79.; From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).

Subject:

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint Early works to 1800; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint; Catholic Church -- Sermons; Catholic Church; Language and languages; Indians of Central America; Mayan languages; Kekchi language; Sermons, Kekchi; Kekchi language -- Texts -- Early works to 1800; Mayan languages -- Texts -- Early works to 1800; Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Languages -- Early works to 1800

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Sermons; Codices; Manuscripts, Spanish; Manuscripts, Latin American; Texts

Physical Description:

20 leaves : paper; 210 x 142 (178 x 120) mm bound to 218 x 162 mm

Geographic Subject:

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

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page (f. [i]).; Pagination: Paper, 20; [ii], 18; foliation in ink, upper right recto, probably in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.; Layout: Written in 20 long lines.; Binding: Late 19th-century half leather.; Kekchi with a few words in Latin in the last section, with title page and table of contents in Spanish.

Physical Location:

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

Collection:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection