Los misterios del S[antísi]mo Rosario en lengua cakchí : del archivo parroquial en Coban

Date:

1874

Description:

A fair copy of prayers on the mysteries of the Rosary in Kekchi.

Language:

Mayan languages

Provenance:

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:

Catholic Church -- Prayers and devotions -- Kekchi; Catholic Church; Mayan languages; Kekchi language; Mysteries of the Rosary; Rosary; Kekchi language -- Texts; Mayan languages -- Texts; Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Languages; Indians of Central America; Language and languages

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

prayers (compositions); translations (documents); Manuscripts, Spanish; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

16 leaves : paper; 210 x 129 (148 x 90) mm bound to 216 x 142 mm

Geographic Subject:

Guatemala; Guatemala -- Languages

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page (p. 3r).; Pagination: Paper, 16; [viii, 1,] 2-17, [vii]; pagination in ink same ink as text, upper center.; Layout: Written in 19 long lines.; Script: In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.; Decoration: Cross at head of text; three initials in red ink (pp. 1, 7, 13) mark the beginning of the three groups of mysteries.; Watermark: PIRIE'S Old Style.; Binding: Late 19th-century half leather.; Origin: Copied, probably in Cobán, Guatemala, probably between 1874 and 1878.; Kekchi, with a Spanish title page.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 700 Item 75

Collection:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection