Note 1893 — Chapter VI · (continued 3)

The bibliographies will add to this enumeration. The Pinart Catalogue (pp. 98-100) gives a partial list. Only some of the more important monographs upon features of the Maya language can be mentioned: Father Pedro Beltran de Santa Rosa’s Arte del idioma Maya (Mexico, 1746) was so rare that Brasseur did not secure it, but Leclerc catalogues it (no. 2,280), as well as the reprint (Merida, 1859) edited by José D. Espinosa. There is a study of the Maya tongues included in a paper printed first by Carl Hermann Berendt in the Journal of the Amer. Geog. Soc. (viii. 132, for 1876), which was later issued separately as Remarks on the centres of ancient civilization in Central America and their geographical distribution (N. Y., 1876). It is accompanied by a map. (Cf. also his “Explorations in Central America” in the Smithsonian Rept., 1867.) Brasseur included in his Manuscrit Troano (Paris, 1869-70), and later published separately, a Dictionnaire, Grammaire et Chrestomathie de la langue Maya (Paris, 1872); the dictionary containing 10,000 words, the grammar being a translation from Father Gabriel de Saint Bonaventure, while the chrestomathy was a gathering of specimens ancient and modern, of the language. Brasseur, in his mutable way, found in the first season of his studies the Greek, Latin, English, German, Scandinavian, not to name others, to have correspondences with the Maya, and ended in deriving them from that tongue as the primitive language. (Cf. Short, 476.) Dr. Brinton has a paper on The Ancient Phonetic Alphabet of Yucatan (N. Y., 1870), and he read at the Buffalo meeting (1886) of the Amer. Assoc. for the Advancement of Science a paper on the phonetic element of the graphic system of the Mayas, etc., which is printed in the American Antiquarian, viii. 347. In the introduction of his Maya Chronicles (Philad., 1882) he examines the language and literature of the Mayas. He refers to a “Disertacion sobre la historia de la lengua Maya o Yucateca” by Crescencio Carrello y Ancona in the Revista de Merida, 1870. Charencey has printed various special papers, like a Fragment de Chrestomathie de la langue Maya antique (Paris, 1875) from the Revue de Philologie et d’Ethnographie, and a paper read before the Copenhagen meeting of the Congrès des Américanistes (Compte Rendu, p. 379), “De la formation des mots en lengua Maya.” Landa’s Relation as published by Brasseur (Paris, 1864) is of course a leading source.