Diccionario maya-español del Convento de San Francisco en Mérida

Contributor:

Hübbe, Joaquín, 1832-1901 (associated name)

Timespan:

Early works to 1800; Early works to 1700

Date:

1870

Description:

Second-generation copy of a 17th-century Spanish-Mayan dictionary, now lost, which was at the Franciscan convent in Mérida until its closure in 1820 or 1821 and copied in 1855 by the Yucatecan linguist Juan Pío Pérez. The original is thought to have been older than the Diccionario de Ticul (Ms. Coll. 700, Item 2), which was dated 1690. In the first volume, words and phrases in Maya are followed by their Spanish equivalents. An appendix includes vocabulary lists containing counting terms, kinship terms, parts of the body, adverbs of time, and illnesses; and a list of additional entries for the dictionary. The second volume, bearing the heading Diccionario en la lengua, contains the Spanish-Maya portion of the dictionary and also has supplementary words and phrases listed at the end.

Language:

Spanish; Castilian

Provenance:

Copied from Juan Pío Pérez's copy of the Maya-Spanish and Spanish-Maya dictionary of the Convent of San Francisco.; From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title pages).; Berendt, C. Hermann 1817-1878, former owner.; Brinton, Daniel G. 1837-1899, former owner.

Subject:

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

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

Physical Description:

2 volumes (203, 207 leaves) : paper; 281 x 216 (v. 1, 198 x 128; v. 2, 180 x 131) mm bound to 289 x 235 mm (v. 1) and 289 x 240 mm (v. 2)

Geographic Subject:

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

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title pages (v. 1, f. 3r; v. 2, f. 3r).; Pagination: Paper. Volume 1: fol. ii + 186 + xiv (blank) + 1 note; contemporary pagination in ink, [iv, I-III], IV-VII, [i, 1], 2-364, [xxviii], upper outer corners. Volume 2: fol. ii + 197 + iii (blank) + 3 notes (5 leaves); contemporary pagination in ink, [iv, I-III], IV-VI, [ii, 1], 2-386, [vi], upper outer corners.; Layout: Written in 29 (v. 1) and 27-28 (v. 2) long lines.; Script: In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt; accompanying notes also name Joaquin Hübbe as a copyist.; Binding: Late 19th-century half leather; paper label inside upper covers reads Encuadernacion de Felipe Montilla, Merida de Yucatan.; Origin: Copied in Mérida, Mexico, in 1870.; Spanish and Maya.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 700 Item 3

Collection:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection