Details

Subject(s)

• Confradía de San Nicolás (Sacapulas, Guatemala) [Browse]
• Cofradías (Latin America) [Browse]
• Confraternities—Guatemala—Sacapulas [Browse]
• Quiché Indians—Religion [Browse]
• Quiché language—Texts [Browse]
• Sacapulas (Guatemala)—History [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Former owner

• Gates, William, 1863-1940 [Browse]

Related name

• Confradía de San Nicolás (Sacapulas, Guatemala) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Account books—Guatemala—Sacapulas—17th century [Browse]
• Account books—Guatemala—Sacapulas—18th century [Browse]
• Account books—Guatemala—Sacapulas—19th century [Browse]
• Financial records—Guatemala—Sacapulas—17th century [Browse]
• Financial records—Guatemala—Sacapulas—18th century [Browse]
• Financial records—Guatemala—Sacapulas—19th century [Browse]
• Paper [Browse]

Contained in

Robert Garrett collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s.

Compiled/​Created

1663-1852.

Linking notes

Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).

Summary note

Consists of financial accounts of the confradía de San Nicolás in Sacapulas, dating from Apr. 17, 1663 - Aug. 29, 1852. A typical entry (May 11, 1802) certifies that the outgoing mayordomos are turning over exactly 502 [tostones?] to the new administration. Other entries list expenditures for particular fiestas and other cult duties. Also includes some transcriptions of legal documents in K'iche'. Some later accounts in Spanish.

Notes

Title from Gates inventory list.

Binding note

Original parchment wrappers.

Language note

Text in K'iche' with some Spanish.

Provenance

Previously owned by William Gates; sold to Robert Garrett (purchased from William Gates in 1930); deposited by Garrett at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in 1942; removed from the Institute in 1949, at Garrett's request, and donated to the Princeton University Library.

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett; 1949.

Cite as

Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 168, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Other format(s)

• Microfilm available for duplication.
• Also available in an electronic version.

Place name(s)

Guatemala Sacapulas.

In

Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s

OCLC

53201664

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