Chilam Balam : artículos y fragmentos de manuscritos antiguos en lengua maya

Name:

Pérez, Juan Pío, 1798-1859

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1870

Description:

Manuscript facsimile of Juan Pio Perez's collection of portions of examples of the Chilam Balam, mainly consisting of calendrical and historical information, with dates in the texts ranging from 1511-2003. An appendix contains Maya legal documents, some with Spanish translations. A folder shelved with the manuscript contains 8 leaves originally laid in the manuscript, one a printed calendar table.

Language:

Mayan languages

Provenance:

Copied from documents collected by Juan Pio Perez while he lived in the pueblo of Ticul.; 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 -- Texts; Maya language; Language and languages; Indians of Mexico -- Languages; Calendars; Maya calendar; Maya astronomy; Mayas -- History; Mayas; History; Calendars -- Early works to 1800; Indians of Mexico -- Languages -- Early works to 1800

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

calendars (documents); chronicles; diagrams; Manuscripts, Mexican; Manuscripts, Spanish; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

138 leaves : paper; 265 x 211 (179 x 136) mm bound to 273 x 226 mm

Geographic Subject:

Mexico; Mexico -- Languages -- Early works to 1800

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page (p. [I]); half title (p. [iii]) and spine give title Códice Perez.; Pagination: Paper, [ii], [I-III], IV-VI, 1-98, 98-99, 99, [i], 100-137, [ii], 138-174, [i], 175-180, [iv, including a foldout chart, now cracked at fold], 181-238, 240, 240-258, [x; blank]; pagination in same ink as text, Roman numerals upper center, Arabic numerals upper outer corners.; Layout: Text pages written in 28-29 long lines; layout varies for calendrical information in columns and calendrical diagrams.; Script: In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.; Decoration: Portraits of kings and small symbols drawn in ink.; Binding: Cloth spine with marbled boards; label inside front cover reads, "Encuadernacion de Felipe Montilla, Merida de Yucatan."; Origin: Copied in Mérida de Yucatan in 1870.; Maya, with Spanish notes and Spanish translations of shorter documents.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 700 Item 50

Collection:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection