| author | Gabriel de San Buenaventura |
|---|---|
| life | ?? |
| title | Arte de la lengua maya |
| ms. finished | 1675 |
| content | grammar and text of some sacraments |
| size | 41 pp. recto & verso + VIII pp. |
| comment | Utterly unsystematic, but with many example sentences. |
| editions | San Buenaventura, Gabriel de 1684, Arte de la lengua maya. México D.F.: Viuda de B. Calderón. Printed with utter negligence. Augmented reprint: México: F. Díaz de León, 1888. Specimen San Buenaventura, Gabriel de 1996, Arte de la lengua maya. Edición de René Acuña. México D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas (Fuentes para el estudio de la cultura maya, 13). Facsimile and critical edition. Bolles, David 2001, Arte de la lengua maya. Compuesto por el R. P. Fr. Gabriel de San Buenaventura ... (Combined Dictionary-Concordance of the Yucatecan Mayan Language) http://www.famsi.org/reports/96072/buenavengmr.htm Unchanged HTML copy of the ms. |
| secondary |
San Buenaventura was a French Franciscan stationed in Mérida. He may also be the author of the Vocabulario español - maya de Ticul, from 1690. Beltrán attributes to him a Calepino castellano-maya / maya-castellano, otherwise unknown, whose first part may be identical to the Ticul vocabulary.
The grammar is heavily dependent on Coronel; it is "basically a rewrite of the Coronel grammar" (Bolles). On a few topics, one of them offers more material than the other.
| p. | title of first subsection | content |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Explicación del Abecedario | pronunciation of the letters |
| 2 | nombres | five paradigms of pronominal elements |
| 5 | primera conjugación | paradigms of four conjugations |
| 15v | mutan¢a de todo genero de verbos | dependent status conjugation |
| 16v | mutan¢a del verbo anteponiendole la persona que haze ... | constructions involving dependent status |
| 17v | verbos de voluntad | complex verb constructions involving dependent status |
| 20r | partículas mas notables ... | alphabetical list of words of different classes with different syntactic behavior |
| 37r | el verbo sum | verbalization of the personal pronoun |
| 38r | verbos en ancil | derivation of different classes of verbs |
| 39r | forma administrandi sacramentum | rite of the anointing of the sick and other sacraments, in Latin and Maya |
| I | advertencia | editor's note on the original |
| IV | erratas del original | list of printing errors of the first edition |
| VIII | erratas de la reimpresión | additional errors of the reprint |