Ortografia en lengua kekchí

Name:

Coy, José Domingo

Date:

1875

Description:

C. Hermann Berendt's 1875 copy of José Domingo Coy's treatise on Kekchi orthography (also in Ms. Coll. 700 as Item 70), written in question and answer format and mostly focusing on accents and punctuation. The list of accent types at the end of the first part of the original is cut short. At the end is a partial alphabetical list (A-J, with F missing) of words and phrases, with a note added in Spanish by Berendt at the end to say that the rest of the work has been lost.

Language:

Mayan languages

Provenance:

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:

Kekchi language -- Orthography and spelling; Mayan languages -- Writing; Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Languages; Indians of Central America; Kekchi language; Language and languages

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Manuscripts, Spanish; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

20 leaves : paper; 215 x 150 (154 x 103) mm bound to 221 x 161 mm

Geographic Subject:

Guatemala; Guatemala -- Languages

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page (f. 3r).; Pagination: Paper, 20; [iv], 32, [iv]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper center.; Script: In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.; Binding: Late 19th-century half leather.; Origin: Copied in Cobán in 1875.; Kekchi, with Spanish title page and headings.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 700 Item 72

Collection:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection