Platicas sobre los mandamientos del decálogo en lengua kekchi : del archivo de la parroquia de Cahabon

Date:

1853/1856

Description:

Ten sermons on the ten commandments by the parish priest of Cobán, translated by a Kekchi Indian of Cobán, with Spanish and Kekchi on facing pages, dated 1855-1856, followed by one sermon on marriage in Kekchi, dated 1853. The sermons were written on different types and sizes of paper and were bound together later.

Language:

Spanish; Castilian; Mayan languages

Provenance:

From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page of volume and title page of first sermon).; Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878, former owner.; Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.

Subject:

Catholic Church -- Sermons; Catholic Church; Mayan languages; Kekchi language; Marriage -- Sermons; Marriage; Kekchi language -- Texts; Mayan languages -- Texts; Sermons, Kekchi; Sermons, Spanish; Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Languages; Indians of Central America; Language and languages

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); sermons; translations (documents); Manuscripts, Spanish

Physical Description:

99 leaves : paper; 165 x 112 mm bound to 171 x 128 mm

Geographic Subject:

Guatemala; Guatemala -- Languages

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page (f. i r).; Foliation: Paper, [iii, 96]; modern pencil foliation, lower right recto, not including blank interleaving added between sermons at the time of binding.; Watermarks: Letters C, I, V, and Y on the paper used for the third through tenth sermons (ff. 21-84).; Binding: Late 19th-century half leather.; Origin: Translations were made by the order of the parish priest (title page note); Berendt received the documents from the parish archives of Cahabón, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala.; Spanish and Kekchi.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 700 Item 80

Collection:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection