Arte y vocabulario de la lengua cakchiquel

Name:

Villacañas, Benito de, approximately 1537-1610

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1871

Description:

A 19th-century copy of Villacañas's 16th-century grammar of the Cakchiquel language (pp. 1-39) and Spanish-Cakchiquel vocabulary (pp. 41-340), followed by short lists of numbers and animal names. Pasted to the recto of f. 1 is an index; pasted to the verso is a brief biography of Villacañas in Spanish, which concludes with a list of six works attributed to Villancañas, including the Arte y vocabulario.

Language:

Spanish; Castilian; Mayan languages

Provenance:

C. Hermann Berendt made this copy "from the only copy known, now or late in the library of the Ethnological Society" (Brinton); his signature is at the end of the work (p. 346).; From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).; Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878, former owner.; Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.

Subject:

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); grammars (instructional materials); glossaries; Manuscripts, Spanish; controlled vocabularies

Physical Description:

179 leaves : paper; 251 x 200 mm bound to 257 x 212 mm

Geographic Subject:

Guatemala -- Languages; Guatemala

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Born in 1537, Villacañas entered the Dominican order in Mexico in 1573 and spent the rest of his life working in Guatemala until he died in the Dominican Convent of Guatemala in 1610.; Title from title page (f. 2r).; Pagination: Paper, viii, 346, iv; contemporary page numbers in ink, upper center.; Script: In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.; Binding: 19th-century boards (blank book purchased in New York).; Origin: Copied in New York in 1871.; Spanish and Cakchikel.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 700 Item 51

Collection:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection