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 "corpus": "maya-colonial-texts",
 "seat": "EA-CORPORA-21/03",
 "title": "The Maya Books of the Colonial Period in Their Languages — the Chilam Balam of Chumayel (Yucatec, facsimile 1913), the Annals of the Cakchiquels (Kaqchikel, Brinton 1885) and the Rabinal Achí (K'iche', Brasseur 1862)",
 "edition": "The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel, with introduction by G. B. Gordon (Philadelphia: University Museum, 1913) — a photographic reproduction of the manuscript compiled in 1782 by Juan José Hoil; Daniel G. Brinton, The Annals of the Cakchiquels: the original text, with a translation, notes and introduction (Library of Aboriginal American Literature 6; Philadelphia, 1885); Brasseur de Bourbourg, Gramática de la lengua quiché / Grammaire de la langue quichée … servant d'introduction au Rabinal-Achí, drame indigène avec sa musique originale, texte quiché et traduction française en regard (Paris: Durand, 1862) — Google copy",
 "language": "yua (Yucatec Maya), cak (Kaqchikel), quc (K'iche')",
 "license": {
  "payload": "Public domain: the texts are of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. G. B. Gordon's photographic facsimile of the Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel (University of Pennsylvania Museum, Anthropological Publications 5, 1913), D. G. Brinton's Annals of the Cakchiquels (Philadelphia, 1885) and Brasseur de Bourbourg's Gramática de la lengua quiché with the Rabinal-Achí (Paris, 1862) are public domain in the United States (published before 1931); Internet Archive scans.",
  "record": "CC-BY-4.0 applies to this seat record only."
 },
 "fetched": "2026-10-23",
 "origin": {
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    "source": "Internet Archive",
    "identifier": "bookofchilambala00hoil",
    "url": "https://archive.org/details/bookofchilambala00hoil",
    "files": [
     "bookofchilambala00hoil.pdf",
     "bookofchilambala00hoil_djvu.txt"
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   },
   {
    "source": "Internet Archive",
    "identifier": "annalsofcakchiqu00darich",
    "url": "https://archive.org/details/annalsofcakchiqu00darich",
    "files": [
     "annalsofcakchiqu00darich.pdf",
     "annalsofcakchiqu00darich_djvu.txt"
    ]
   },
   {
    "source": "Internet Archive",
    "identifier": "GramaticaDeLaLenguaQuiche",
    "url": "https://archive.org/details/GramaticaDeLaLenguaQuiche",
    "files": [
     "Gramatica_de_la_lengua_quiche.pdf",
     "Gramatica_de_la_lengua_quiche_djvu.txt"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "fetched": "2026-10-23",
  "transport": "in-session fetch (Transport D); No-Double-Draw"
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 "works": {
  "count": 3,
  "units": "one text file per work",
  "list": [
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    "slug": "chilam-balam-chumayel-1913",
    "work": "The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel, with introduction by G. B. Gordon (Philadelphia: University Museum, 1913) — a photographic reproduction of the manuscript compiled in 1782 by Juan José Hoil",
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     "original/bookofchilambala00hoil/bookofchilambala00hoil_djvu.txt"
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    "class": "Yucatec",
    "lines": 4606
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    "slug": "annals-of-the-cakchiquels-brinton-1885",
    "work": "Daniel G. Brinton, The Annals of the Cakchiquels: the original text, with a translation, notes and introduction (Library of Aboriginal American Literature 6; Philadelphia, 1885)",
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     "original/annalsofcakchiqu00darich/annalsofcakchiqu00darich_djvu.txt"
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    "class": "Kaqchikel",
    "lines": 10666
   },
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    "slug": "rabinal-achi-brasseur-1862",
    "work": "Brasseur de Bourbourg, Gramática de la lengua quiché / Grammaire de la langue quichée … servant d'introduction au Rabinal-Achí, drame indigène avec sa musique originale, texte quiché et traduction française en regard (Paris: Durand, 1862) — Google copy",
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    "originals": [
     "original/GramaticaDeLaLenguaQuiche/Gramatica_de_la_lengua_quiche.pdf",
     "original/GramaticaDeLaLenguaQuiche/Gramatica_de_la_lengua_quiche_djvu.txt"
    ],
    "class": "K'iche'",
    "lines": 22691
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  ]
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 "normalization": "Files as fetched. Internet Archive OCR text layers as fetched, uncorrected (text/<slug>.ocr.txt); the scan under original/ is the witness. Library of Congress and FAMSI PDFs are image files without a text layer: the page is the only reading.",
 "scope": "Three Maya books of the colonial period in their own languages: the Yucatec Chilam Balam of Chumayel in its manuscript, the Kaqchikel annals of the Xajil lineage, and the K'iche' dance-drama of Rabinal. The other books of Chilam Balam (Tizimín, Maní, Kaua) are not seated in this pass: QUEUED. Roys's edition of Chumayel (1933) is a translation and is in copyright in its apparatus; not seated.",
 "verified_loci": [
  "Gordon 1913, running head — 'CHILAM BALAM OF CHUMAYEL'",
  "Brinton 1885, contents — 'The Annals of Xahila'",
  "Brasseur 1862, the drama's title — 'RABINAL-ACHI'"
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 "lines_total": 37963,
 "why_seated": "Seated with the codices and the Popol Vuh so that the Maya shelf holds the script, the K'iche' book, and the books written after the conquest in the alphabet the conquest brought: the prophecies of the katuns, a lineage's annals, and the only pre-conquest drama to survive.",
 "spine": "Maya Books",
 "ruling": "Lee Sharks, 2026-10-23: \"detour for an ea-corpora searing. lets see. whats available of mayan texts? and then i dont think we have much or any deteurocanonical second temple lit - all those apocalypses. and what about the ethiopian canon? and euclid. all in original language or as close to it as possible. what else?\" — \"and the Egyptian book of the dead\" — \"and what about the fragments of the book of baalim? i might be miswriting this. recent discovery. if theyre available anywhere.\" — \"yes yes yes to all - what a meal.\""
}