Miscellanea maya. [ca. 1864-1873]

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Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878. Miscellanea maya.

Miscellanea maya. [ca. 1864-1873]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/731221037

Scrapbook, assembled by Daniel Garrison Brinton, of notes, manuscripts, and clippings of C. Hermann Berendt, on topics in Maya linguistics and ethnography. A table of contents in Spanish (f. 3) has 29 headings, organized in sections for grammar (f. 4-53), vocabulary (f. 54-74), and ethnology (f. 75-98). Grammar includes comparative alphabets of Mayan languages (Huastec, Mixtec, Mam, Otomi, Zapotec) and languages of Guatemala (Cakchiquel, Quiché, Tzutuhil); as well as notes on word formation, plurals, and parts of speech. Maya vocabularies include sexual and body parts, kinship, plants, maiz, animals, and conversational phrases. Languages appearing in comparative vocabularies include Maya, Nahuatl, Otomi, Cakchiquel, Natchez, Tzental (Tzeltal?), Chontal, Quiché, Huastec, and Putum of Palenque (Chol?). Under ethnology are headings for the character of the Indians of the Yucatán; customs and superstitions of the Maya; calendars and time reckoning; hieroglyphics; antiquities; and ethnological map. Manuscripts by Berendt include a version of his essay Analytical alphabet for Mexican and Central American languages (f. 4); and the following comparative vocabularies: Putum/Tzental/Chontal (f. 57); Mexicano/Maya/Otomi, with title page inscribed to George Gibbs, 1864 (f. 59); Maya-Cakchiquel (f. 60); Maya-Chontal-Kiche-Cakchiquel--Huasteca-Mam-Pokonchi (f. 64); and Zahlwörter (counting words) in Mayan languages (fold-out chart; f. 69r). A draft letter from Berendt to Gibbs, dated 1865, concerns a section of an article by Gibbs headed: Numeral systems (f. 67). Annotated transcriptions by Berendt of material from other authors include D.G. Brinton's The Natchez of Louisiana, along with a Natchez vocabulary of Albert Gallatin, with comparisons to Mayan languages (f. 62); and Calendario maya, by Juan Pío Pérez, dated 1868 (between f. 80 and 81). Also included are two versions of a manuscript entitled: Catalogo de una colección de antiguedades ... de Yucatan, Campeche y Tabasco, by Florentino Jimeno, one dated 1869, with a clipping dated Mérida, 1871 (between f. 88 and 89), and the other dated 1872, and prefaced by a copy of a letter from abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg, dated 1871 (between f. 89 and 90). Clippings include an article entitled Central American hieroglyphics (Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, New York, 5 April 1873), which Berendt has signed by hand (f. 86); and Spanish-language clippings about Yucatan antiquities, ruins or localities, mostly from Mérida, dated 1866 (f. 95) and 1871-1872 (f. 90-91, 96-98). Two articles are by Jose T. Cervera (f. 91, 96).

357 leaves : paper ; 366-368 x 235-238 mm. bound to 374 x 265 mm.

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