Calendario de los indios de Guatemala, 1685, Cakchiquel

Contributor:

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

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1878

Description:

A 19th-century copy of a 17th-century manuscript about the calendar of the Cakchikel Indians, with an introduction about the original manuscript by C. Hermann Berendt, who made the copy. Berendt also compares the Mayan and Aztec calendars and lists the names of the months and days for each. The manuscript text contains the names of each month in the Cakchikel calendar along with their meanings and gives a list of the days with their corresponding dates in the Julian calendar.

Language:

Spanish; Castilian

Provenance:

Copied by C. Hermann Berendt from a manuscript found by Juan Gavarrete in 1829 among the papers of the Franciscan convent in Guatemala City and found in the "Choronica de la Santa Provincia del Santissimo Nombre de Jesus de Guatemala" (p. [3]).; From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).

Subject:

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Calendars (documents by form); Glossaries; Manuscripts, Spanish; Glossaries, vocabularies, etc; Controlled vocabularies

Physical Description:

leaves 41r-54r : paper; 266 x 208 mm bound to 273 x 220 mm

Geographic Subject:

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

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. component part.; Title from component title page (f. 41r).; Pagination: Paper, 14; [1-3], 4-27; page numbers in the hand of the writer, upper center.; Script: Written by C. Hermann Berendt.; Origin: Copied in Guatemala (City) in 1878.; Item 57 is bound and shelved with Item 58.; Spanish and Cakchikel.

Physical Location:

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

Collection:

Calendarios de los indios de Guatemala; Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection