DEP^RET DICCIONAEIO. 925 
Diccionario — continued. 
"Its peculiar importance rests on the fact that it gives us the Maya tongue as 
it was in the ceutury of the Conquest; for remarks by the author show him to 
have hoeu a Franciscan friar, living in the convent of Motul in or about 1577, 
as he spealis of having seen the comet of that year. If the M,aya hieroglyph- 
ics are ever deciphered, it must be through the language as presented in this 
dictionary. 
" The copy in the Brown library was written probably at the close of the 
sixteenth century, and by a scribe not well versed iu Maya and a careless 
copyist. Hence very many errors are iu that copy which have been corrected 
in the present one, with infinite pains, by Dr. Berendt. The Spanish-Maya 
portion is by a diftereut hand, and is probably of later date." 
Vol. 3, additions and corrections, is by Dr. Berendt. 
1030 b Diccionario | Espaflol-Maya | de Ticul. | 1690. | Trascrito 
por D. Juan Pio Perez en 1S3G | y arreglado en 1847 per el mismo. | 
Copiado en Merida | 1870. | dgb. 
Manuscript, pp. i-viii, 1-267. 4°. 
1030 c Diccionario | Maya-Espaiiol [ de Ticul. | Coordiuacion alfa- 
betica de las palabras Mayas | que se liallan eu la anterior parte 
Oastellana. | Por | D. Juan Pio Perez. | 1847. | Copiado en 
Merida | 1870. | dgb. 
Manuscript. 2 11., pp. 1-241. Both in possession of Dr. Brinton, from whose 
manuscript catalogue of the Berendt collection I copy the following note : 
"In 1836 the cura of Ticul, Don Estanislao Carrillo, found among the baptismal 
archivcsof his parish a manuscript of 154 leaves, with the title: Vocabulario 
de la lengua Maya que comienza en romance, compuesto de varies autores de 
esta lengua. It bore as the date of completion Jan. 26, 1690. He presented 
it to his friend, Don Juan Pio Perez, the distinguished Yucatecan linguist. The 
latter copied it, after which the original, not being cared for, was lost. In 1847 
he made another copy, and either gave away or otherwise disposed of that of 
18.S6. From that of 1847, the present one was made by Dr. Berendt in Merida, 
1370, with tbe utmost care." 
1030 d Diccionario | Maya-Bspaiiol | del Convento de San Fran 
Cisco I en Merida | Copiado por | C. Hermann Berendt, M. D. | 
Merida | 1870. j DGB. 
Manuscript. Pp. i-vii, 1-364. 4°. 
1030 e Diccionario | Bspanol-Maya | del Convento de San Fran- 
• Cisco I en Merida. | Copiado por | C. Hermann Berendt, M. D. | 
Merida | 1870. | DGB. 
Manuscript. Title, verso blank, 1 1., 1 blank 1., pp. 1-386. 4°. Both in pos- 
session of Dr. Brinton, from whoso manuscript catalogue of the Berendt collcc- 
lion the following note is taken : 
"According to the most skillful Maya scholars, this dictionary was composed 
in the 17th century, and is older than that of Ticul. When, iu 1820, the Fran- 
ciscan convent of Merida was closed, the original manuscript was presented to 
a citizen of Merida, and passed through various hands until it reached those of 
Don Juan Pio Perez. He made a fliithful copy of it, from which the present 
one was taken in 1870 by Dr. Berendt. The original could nowhere be found at 
that date, nor is there any intimation who the author was, or the exact date of 
his labors." 
