Volume 1: Cultural notes and grammatical summary, some notes on pronunciation, nouns, pronouns, adverbs, verbs, numerals, particles; some morphological analysis. The Lord's Prayer, as received by G. Reed, with interlineation. A few kin terms and loan words in the vocabulary, which begins in Volume 1 and runs through the remaining volumes. The English-Kekchi vocabulary is not properly alphabetized. In volume 1 there are about 240 entries, A- CURASSON. 73 pages.
Volume 2: CHACHA-POUR OUT, 72 pages, about 700 entries.
Volume 3: PLEASANT-YELLOW, 61 pages. About 525 entries, plus about 75 Kekchi English phrases, plus a few greetings and 1 page of Christian and family names at the end. Dated at the end at Tullahoma, Tennessee, July 8, 1885. H. Landau 8 V11 1969
Contents: I. Explicacion de la Doctrina Christiana (Kekchi and Spanish in parallel columns) Traduccion del Espanol al Quecchi", por Dn. Tomas Riveiro Coban, Republica de Guatemala.- 127 pages. II. Kekchi Calendar of Lucky and Unlucky Days, from Lanquin. 13 pages. III. Ortografia en Kekchi, por Jose Domingo Coy (1870). 9 pages. IV. Manuscrito en Lengua Sotzil, sin nombre Autor, encontrado en la Parroquia de Comitan (Chiapas) de los PP. Predicadores. mandado copiar fielmente por el Ilmo, Sr Dr Don Francisco Orozco y Jimenez, Obispo de Chiapas, 1906.- 48 pages V. Fragment of a Poqomchi Arte, on two leaves, 4to in an early 18th century hand; author unknown. From an erasure, it may be a copy of some earlier work.- 4 pages. VI. 1565 anos Kekchi Testamento.- 5 pages. VII. Parlamento de la Vida de Jesus. Escrito en Kekchi, 1912.- 28 pages. VIII. Doctrina en Kekchi- Todo fiel Cristiano - etc.- 10 pages. IX. Kekchi Doctrina and Padre Nuestro- 7 pages. X. Manera de Efectuarse el Matrimonio. En Kekchi.- 10 pages. XI. Libro del Judio. (no author or date)- 70 pages. XII. Sakigoxol- text A.- 33 pages.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 3168
Other Title:
Explicacion de la Doctrina Christiana
Kekchi Calendar of Lucky and Unlucky Days, from Lanquin
Ortografia en Kekchi, por Jose Domingo Coy
Manuscrito en Lengua Sotzil, sin nombre Autor, encontrado en la Parroquia de Comitan (Chiapas) de los PP. Predicadores
