Apuntes para un diccionario de la lengua maya : compuestos con vista de varios catálogos antiguos de sus voces y aumentado con gran suma de las de uso comun y otras que se han estractado de manuscritos antiguos
Name:
Pérez, Juan Pío, 1798-1859
Date:
1870
Description:
Bound volume containing C. Hermann Berendt's partial copy of Juan Pio Pérez's notes for a dictionary of the Maya language (for Pérez's original manuscript, see Ms. Coll. 700, Item 5); some loose notes by Berendt that had been laid in are housed in a separate folder shelved with the manuscript. Following the author's preface (Prólogo; p. V-X), the main body of the volume is divided into two parts, each with its own title page: Part 1 (Primera parte) and Part 2 (Segunda parte). In each part, the entries are alphabetized according to the Maya word; the last entry in Part 1 is banban cheek, and in Part 2, boolan. In Part 2, Berendt marks many entries with either an asterisk (*) or a cross (+); the symbols are generally absent in Part 1, except for three entires marked with an asterisk (p. 24-25). Pérez's original manuscript, in contrast, apparently has four different alphabetized parts. The manuscript contains occasional pencilled annotations by Berendt (Part 1, 8, 22, 23; Part 2, p. 3, 10, 11), including a note in the preface that he initials (p. VIII). It also includes a title page for an introduction by the copyist (Introduccion de copiante; p. II). That section is blank; however, among the loose notes accompanying the manuscript are two leaves that appear to be drafts of prefatory material composed by Berendt, one titled Introducción del copiante, and the other, Advertencia. Another leaf contains notes by Berendt about Pérez's work, in part about orthography (in a blank portion, apparently unrelated to Berendt's notes, is the signature: Pio Perez). Notes on several additional partial leaves mainly pertain to vocabulary.
Language:
Spanish; Castilian; Mayan languages
Provenance:
Copied by C. Hermann Berendt from a manuscript of Juan Pio Pérez that was lent to Berendt by Nicolasa Péon y Escalente, niece of Juan Pio Pérez; while Berendt was in the process of making the copy, she presented the original to him as a gift, in acknowledgment of his paper entitled Los trabajos linguisticos de Don Juan Pio Perez (note tipped in, p. 27). Perez's original manuscript is part of the current collection (see Ms. Coll. 700, Item 5, Apuntes del diccionario de la lengua maya).; From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Library bookplate for Daniel Garrison Brinton Library, inside upper cover).; Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878, former owner.; Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.
582 leaves : paper; 276 x 213 (202-208 x 130-132) mm bound to 286 x 230 mm + 12 notes
Geographic Subject:
Mexico -- Languages; Mexico
Rights:
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Notes:
Ms. codex.; Title from title page (Part 1, f. i).; Pagination: Paper, fol. ii (paper endleaves) + 582 + v (paper endleaves). The manuscript has two parts that are separately paginated, with 160 blank leaves intervening: i-ii, [I], II-III, [IV-V], VI-X, [XI-XII], [1], 2-27, [28-348 (blank)], [i-ii], [1], 2-14, [15-230 (blank)]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.; Layout: Vocabulary entries written in 32-33 long lines on lined paper, with the main entry in Maya and the Spanish equivalent following.; Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.; Binding: 19th-century half leather over blue marbled boards.; Origin: Written in Mérida in 1870.; Spanish and Maya.
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 700 Item 228
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