Apuntes para una gramática maya

Alternate Title:

Gramática maya

Name:

Pérez, Juan Pío, 1798-1859

Date:

1868/1869

Description:

Collection of works on the Maya language, including works on grammar and lexicography, by Juan Pío Pérez and C. Hermann Berendt. Berendt copied a work by Pérez on Maya grammar; created an index to that work; added his own essay on Pérez's linguistic work; copied extracts from Pérez's introduction to the Diccionario de Tícul; and began an essay on the history of lexicography in the Maya language. A table of contents in Berendt's hand is on the front flyleaf.

Language:

Spanish; Castilian

Provenance:

First work copied from fragments in possession of Don Pedro Regil, Mérida, 1868 (Berendt note, p. 45).; 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:

Maya language -- Grammar; Maya language -- Dictionaries; Maya language; Mayan languages -- Grammar; Mayan languages; Indians of Mexico -- Languages; Language and languages

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Grammars (instructional materials); Manuscripts, Mexican; Manuscripts, Spanish; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

76 leaves : paper; 190 x 121 mm bound to 196 x 134 mm

Geographic Subject:

Mexico -- Languages; Mexico

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Collective title from title page for first work (p. 45).; Table of contents: 1. p.45-131: Apuntes para una gramática maya / Juan Pío Pérez.; Table of contents: 2. p.132-136: Indice para les notas gramaticales precedentes / C. Hermann Berendt.; Table of contents: 3. p.137-163: Los trabajos linguísticos de D. Juan Pío Pérez / C. Hermann Berendt.; Table of contents: 4. p.165-179: Estractos de la introduccion que puso à su trascripcion de diccionario de Tícul / Juan Pío Pérez.; Table of contents: 5. p.185-188: Historia de la lexicografia de la lengua maya / C. Hermann Berendt.; Pagination: Paper, 76; [i], 45-128, [ii], 129-30, [ii], 131-132, 135-140, [ii], 141-148, [ii], 149-152, [ii], 153-188; page numbers stamped in blue ink, upper outer corners. The beginning of this volume was removed before binding; this record refers to the stamped page numbers.; Layout: Written in 23 long lines on lined paper.; Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.; Binding: Late 19th-century leather; spine, detached from upper cover, has gilt Gothic B for Berendt at tail; spine label reads, Pio Perez, Gramática Maya.; Origin: Compiled, probably in Mérida, Mexico, in 1868 and 1869.; Spanish and Maya.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 700 Item 11

Collection:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection