Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Coll. 700 Item 77: Coleccion de escritos menores en lengua kekchí de la Verapaz University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Rare Book & Manuscript Library Ms. Coll. 700 Item 77: Coleccion de escritos menores en lengua kekchí de la Verapaz are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Metadata is ©2019 University of Pennsylvania Libraries and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. 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). 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library Ms. Coll. 700 Item 77 9941022813503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/124559983 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4102281 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]). Spanish and Kekchi Coleccion de escritos menores en lengua kekchí de la Verapaz former owner Berendt, C. Hermann 1817-1878 former owner Brinton, Daniel Garrison, 1837-1899

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 28 leaves : 206 x 166 mm. bound to 214 x 180 mm 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. First and third works written in two columns for Kekchi and Spanish. Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.

Late 19th-century half leather.

Copied in Cobán, Guatemala, in 1875.

1875 Coban Guatemala From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page). Catholic Church--Sermons Kekchi language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc Kekchi language--Texts Sermons, Kekchi Sermons, Spanish Mayan languages--Texts Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Languages Codices Glossaries Sermons Translations Manuscripts, Spanish--19th century