Coleccion de escritos menores en lengua kekchí de la Verapaz

Contributor:

Berendt, C. Hermann 1817-1878 (former owner); Brinton, Daniel G. 1837-1899 (former owner)

Date:

1875

Description:

A collection of fair but partial copies of three Kekchi documents, with a title page for the volume as a whole and a blank table of contents. The three documents are a glossary of Kekchi phrases copied in 1875 from an 1819 manuscript in the possession of Francisco Poou of Cobán (pp. 5-16); the first page of a sermon for the day of St. John the Baptist, copied in 1875 from a 1741 manuscript in the parish archives of Cobán (pp. [17-19]); and a sermon on the first commandment in Spanish and Kekchi, from 1855 (pp. [41-48]).

Language:

Spanish; Castilian

Provenance:

From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).

Subject:

Catholic Church -- Sermons; Catholic Church; Mayan languages; Kekchi language; Kekchi language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc; Kekchi language -- Texts; Sermons, Kekchi; Sermons, Spanish; Mayan languages -- Texts; Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Languages; Indians of Central America; Language and languages

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Sermons; Codices; Glossaries; Translations (documents); Manuscripts, Spanish; Texts; Glossaries, vocabularies, etc; Controlled vocabularies

Physical Description:

28 leaves : paper; 206 x 166 mm bound to 214 x 180 mm

Geographic Subject:

Guatemala; Guatemala -- Languages

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page (p. [1]).; Originals of the sermons from which C. Hermann Berendt started these copies are in Ms. Coll. 700 Item 68 (for the day of St. John the Baptist) and Ms. Coll. 700 Item 70 (on the first commandment).; Pagination: Paper, 28; [iv, 1-7], 8-16, [17-19, 9 blank, 29, 11 blank, 41-48 (with 45-48 paginated as 5-8), iv]; page numbers, when present, in ink, upper center.; Layout: First and third works written in two columns for Kekchi and Spanish.; Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.; Binding: Late 19th-century half leather.; Origin: Copied in Cobán, Guatemala, in 1875.; Spanish and Kekchi.

Physical Location:

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

Collection:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection