A bound collection of notes and studies on personal and geographical names in the Maya language. The first and third works are arranged in a dictionary format with tabs for each letter; the remaining works are more informal, many with notes pasted in. Possible dates for work on sections of the manuscript range from 1864, the latest date in a list of cited works (f. 31r), to 1871 (newspaper clipping mounted on f. 93r).; 1. f.1r-25v: Nombres mitológicos, historicos, de personas, oficios, de fiestas, del calendario, etc.; 2. f.26r-27r: Lista alfabética de apellidos de los indios de Yucatan.; 3. f.30r-93r: Nombres geográficos en lengua maya.; 4. f.96r-105v: Verzeichnisz georaphischer Namen in der maya Sprache von Yucatan.; 5. f.106r-114r: Lista de nombres geográficos en lengua maya.; 6. f.116r-122r: [Notes on geographic names]; 7. f.124r-132v: Das Wort maya als Name der Sprache oder des Volkes oder des Landes.; 8. f.133r-141r: La palabra Yucatan.; 9. f.143r-148r: Macequal ò Macehual (im Nahuatl)
Language:
Spanish; Castilian
Provenance:
From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton.
Codices; Manuscripts, Spanish; Manuscripts, German
Physical Description:
152 leaves : paper, illustrations, maps; 318-333 x 198-218 mm bound to 344 x 229 mm, map 330 x 390 mm (unfolded)
Geographic Subject:
Mexico -- Languages; Mexico
Rights:
https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Notes:
Ms. codex.; Title from title page (f. [ii]).; Foliation: Paper, iii + 149; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Script: In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.; Decoration: 2 maps of the Yucatan: one titled Derroteros de la descubrimiento y de la conquista de Yucatan, por C. H. B., 1870, and carefully done in ink with routes marked in colored ink (mounted on f. 95v and folded); the other sketched in pencil (f. 126r).; Binding: Late 19th- or early 20th-century half leather.; Origin: Probably written and compiled between 1864 and 1871.; Spanish and German texts analyzing Mayan names.
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 700
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