Sermones : manuscript, [1700].

Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Mayan languages
Description
1 v. (28 leaves) : paper ; 21 x 16 cm.

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Special Collections - Manuscripts C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 238) Browse related items Reading Room Request
    Special Collections - Manuscripts C0744 Browse related items Reading Room Request

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      Subject(s)
      Donor
      Former owner
      Rare books genre
      Getty AAT genre
      Contained in
      Robert Garrett collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s.
      Compiled/​Created
      [1700].
      Linking notes
      Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).
      Summary note
      Collection of sermons. Probably formed part of a larger religious miscellany, with contemporary pagination (p. 48-76).
      Binding note
      Unbound sheets.
      Language note
      Text in Pokonchi.
      Provenance
      Numbers 236-241 are practically identical in the writing, but have minor differences in the spacing of line, etc. They may nevertheless have been parts of a single collection; William Gates received them gathered among various pieces, including others in K'iche'; 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. 238, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
      Other format(s)
      Also available in an electronic version.
      In
      Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s
      OCLC
      60355633
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