A Yucatan grammar
- Description
- A manuscript copy of a Maya grammar written by Joaquin Ruz, translated into English by Baptist missionary John Kingdon, and printed at the Baptist Mission Press in Belize in 1847. A prefatory note by C. Hermann Berendt states that Ruz tried unsuccessfully to force Maya to follow the rules of Spanish grammar and refers to numerous errors in Maya and Spanish by Kingdon. One such error is that the grammar is not Yucatan, but Yucatecan. Berendt also claims that Ruz's work is a Maya translation of an earlier Spanish grammar textbook.
- Alternate Title
- Maya grammar
- Creator
- Ruz, Joaquin, 1772-1870
- Kingdon, John (translator)
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- grammars (instructional materials)
- Manuscripts, English
- Date
- 1865
- Language
- English
- Mayan languages
- Subject
- Maya language -- Grammar
- Mayan languages -- Grammar
- Indians of Central America -- Belize -- Languages
- Indians of Central America
- Mayan languages
- Language and languages
- Geographic Subject
- Belize
- Belize -- Languages
- Collection
- Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection
- Extent
- 61 leaves : paper ; 189 x 120 mm bound to 194 x 124 mm
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Born in 1772 in Mérida, Yucatan, Joaquin Ruz entered the Franciscan order in 1794 and died in 1870.
- Title from title page (f. 1).
- Pagination: Paper, 61; [iv], 8-23, 23-24, 24-92, 92-121, [i]; pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
- Layout: Written in 21-27 lines on lined paper.
- Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
- Binding: Late 19th-century leather; Maya grammar, MS., and a B for Berendt at the tail of the spine, in gold.
- Origin: Copied in New York, 1865.
- English with Maya examples.
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 700 Item 14
- Provenance
- From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).
- Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878, former owner.
- Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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