Diccionario de Motul

Alternate Title:

Diccionario de la lengua maya de Yucatan

Name:

Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878; Ciudad Real, Antonio de, 1551-1617

Timespan:

Early works to 1800; Early works to 1700

Date:

1864

Description:

Volume 1 is C. Hermann Berendt's copy of the late 16th- or early 17th-century Maya-Spanish dictionary of Antonio de Ciudad Real, containing thousands of entries with extensive annotations by Berendt in blue ink, red ink, and pencil. Ciudad Real's manuscript has been associated with the Franciscan convent in Motul, Mexico. Volume 2 is Berendt's copy of a slightly later Spanish-Maya dictionary, with the main text in black and green (faded black?) ink and annotations in blue ink, red ink, and pencil. Volume 3 contains additions and corrections to Volume 1. The volumes were started in 1864 and annotated over many years. Among the sources of the annotations and corrections are the works of Pedro Beltrán de Santa Rosa (Item 9 and Item 10 in this collection) and Gabriel de San Buenaventura (Item 8), and the Diccionario de Ticul and Diccionario de San Francisco (Item 2 and Item 3).

Language:

Spanish; Castilian

Provenance:

Annotated copy by C. Hermann Berendt of manuscripts in the John Carter Brown Library (Vol. 1 and Vol. 2), later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).; Brinton, Daniel G. 1837-1899, former owner.

Subject:

Maya language -- Dictionaries -- Spanish -- Early works to 1700; Maya language; Language and languages; Indians of Mexico -- Languages; Spanish language -- Dictionaries -- Maya -- Early works to 1700; Spanish language; Indians of Mexico -- Languages -- Early works to 1800

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Dictionaries; Glossaries; Manuscripts, Spanish; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

3 volumes (793, 262, 208 leaves) : paper; Vol. 1, 281 x 227 mm bound to 289 x 239 mm; Vol. 2, 278 x 224 mm bound to 288 x 238 mm; Vol. 3, 283 x 214 mm bound to 290 x 238 mm

Geographic Subject:

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

Rights:

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Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page (f. 1 or f. 2 of each volume).; Table of contents: 1. v.1: Maya-español.; Table of contents: 2. v.2: Español-maya.; Table of contents: 3. v.3: Adiciones y correcturas.; Pagination: Vol. 1: Paper, ii + 789 + ii; [iv], VII, 1565, [1566-1569, v]. Vol. 2: Paper, ii + 258 + ii; [viii], 508, [viii]. Pagination in ink, upper outer corners. Vol. 3 (Foliation): Paper, ii + 205 + i; [ii], 1, [i], 2-204, [i]; modern pencil foliation, upper right recto.; Layout: Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 written in 24 long lines; Vol. 3 written in 2 columns with page numbers from Vol. 1 at the top of each column and a guide word in Maya at the top of each page.; Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.; Decoration: Pencil illustrations (Vol. 1, p. 386, 824, 1445; Vol. 2, 86, 269); ink illustrations of small circular symbols (Vol. 3, for example p. 3, 19) and ink sketches (Vol. 3, p. 104).; Binding: Vol. 1, 19th-century half calf with gilt Gothic B at tail of spine, upper cover detached; Vol. 2, 19th-century half calf with gilt Gothic B at tail of spine; Vol. 3, 19th-century half leather, with spine missing and upper cover detached.; Origin: Written in Providence, R. I., in 1864.; Spanish and Maya.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 700 Item 1

Collection:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection