Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Open Court, Vol. 42: November, 1928
Scherzer at once made a copy of the Spanish translation of the manuscript, which he published at Vienna in 1856 under the title of Las Historias del origen de los Indios de Guatemala, [jar el R. P. F. Francisco Ximenes. The Abb� Brasseur also took a copy of the original, which he published at Paris in 1860. With the title Vuh Popol: Le Lit're Sacr� d'e Quichcs, et les Mythes de i'amiquitf' Americaine. In this work the Quiche original and the Abb�'s French translation are set forth side by side. Unfortunately both the Spanish and the French translations leave much to be desired so far as their accuracy is concerned. And they are rendered of little use by reason of the misleading notes which accompany them. The late Dr. Eduard Seler of Berlin was. Prior to his death, engaged on a translation from the Quiche. But it appears to have been left unfinished.
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