Sermones en lengua maya
- Description
- Copies of sermons selected by C. Hermann Berendt from an 18th-century manuscript collection of sermons. Includes six sermons for Lent and sermons on souls and the dead. Followed by a list of Maya words with Spanish equivalents (p. 228-229). A page of notes by Berendt on the other sermons in the collection, originally pasted to p. 137, torn free, and stored loose within the manuscript, has been removed and is shelved with the manuscript.
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- sermons
- glossaries
- Manuscripts, Mexican
- Manuscripts, Spanish
- controlled vocabularies
- Date
- 1870
- Language
- Spanish; Castilian
- Mayan languages
- Latin
- Subject
- Catholic Church -- Sermons
- Catholic Church
- Language and languages
- Indians of Mexico -- Languages
- Mayan languages
- Maya language
- Sermons, Maya
- Lenten sermons
- Maya language -- Texts
- Maya language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
- Mayan languages -- Texts -- Early works to 1800
- Indians of Mexico -- Languages -- Early works to 1800
- Geographic Subject
- Mexico
- Mexico -- Languages -- Early works to 1800
- Collection
- Coleccion de platicas doctrinales y sermones en lengua maya
- Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection
- Extent
- pages 118-229 : paper ; 191 x 121 mm bound to 198 x 135 mm
- Notes
- Ms. component part.
- Title from title page (p. 119).
- Pagination: Paper, 57; 118-229; page numbers stamped in blue ink, upper outer corners.
- Layout: Written in 20-21 long lines.
- Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt, with Latin words in italics.
- Decoration: Drawing in red ink of the watermark of the original manuscript, showing three circles in a vertical line with a cross topping the top one, the letters CL in the middle one, a floral shape in the bottom one, and the capital letter I below the bottom one (p. 118).
- Origin: Copied in Mérida in 1870 (note, p. 119).
- Item 47 is bound and shelved with Item 46.
- Maya, with Latin words in sermons and title page and notes in Spanish.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3s75705r
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 700 Item 47
- Provenance
- 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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