Annotations : to Arte de el idioma maya reducido a succintas reglas

Name:

Beltrán de Santa Rosa, Pedro

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1746

Description:

Published copy of the first edition of Beltrán's Maya grammar (Mexico: Viuda de Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, 1746), with marginal corrections and annotations supposedly by Beltrán; a facsimile title page created by C. Hermann Berendt (p. i); and Berendt's notes laid in (13 leaves), including copies from an unknown source of 2 lineage diagrams probably intended to follow p. 172, and pages 181-187, all missing from this volume. The loose notes have been removed, unfolded, and shelved with the volume.

Language:

Spanish; Castilian

Provenance:

Gift of Don Tomas Aznar Barbachano, Campeche, August 1867 (note in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt, inside front cover).; From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp inside front cover).; Berendt, C. Hermann 1817-1878, former owner.; Brinton, Daniel G. 1837-1899, former owner.

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Subject:

Maya language -- Grammar; Maya language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc; Mayan languages -- Grammar -- Early works to 1800; Indians of Mexico -- Languages -- Early works to 1800; Language and languages; Indians of Mexico -- Languages; Mayan languages -- Grammar; Mayan languages; Maya language

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

annotations; grammars (instructional materials); glossaries; Manuscripts, Mexican; Manuscripts, Spanish; controlled vocabularies

Physical Description:

102 leaves : paper; 191 x 143 mm

Geographic Subject:

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

Rights:

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

Notes:

Franciscan professor of philosophy and theology.; Title supplied by cataloger; title for book on facsimile title page (p. i) is Arte de el idioma maya reducido a succintas reglas y semilexicon yucateco; spine title is Arte de la lengua maya.; Pagination: Paper, 102; [xvi], 1-180, [181-188]; placeholder leaves bound in for pp. i, 127-128, 181-188, and two foldout leaves between pp. 172-173.; Script: Hand of Pedro Beltrán de Santa Rosa in marginalia?; Binding: 19th-century quarter leather with gilt on spine (1746; Gothic letter B at tail).; Origin: Annotated in Mexico, ca. 1746.; Spanish and Maya.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 700 Item 9

Collection:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection