Details

Subject(s)

• Quiché Indians—History—Sources [Browse]
• Cakchikel Indians—History—Sources [Browse]
• Quiché language—Texts [Browse]
• Indigenous peoples of Central America—Guatemala—History—Sources [Browse]
• Guatemala—History—To 1821—Sources [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Former owner

• Gates, William, 1863-1940 [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Paper [Browse]

Contained in

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

Compiled/​Created

[1812 Sept. 2].

Linking notes

Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).

Summary note

Ms. copy, written in an unidentified hand, probably at Totonicapán, Guatemala. The original manuscript was written by Juan de Torres, head of sub-lineage of the Tam, dated Oct. 12, 1580. Concerns the history of the Tam lineage of the Quiche from the first ancestors to the 15th century, and lists the genealogy relevant to land claims and the boundaries of those claims. This is one of the four fullest lineage histories surviving from the 16th century Quiche, and although a late copy, it is the earliest known text.

Notes

"Hispaniarum Rex. Carolus IV, D.G.," "Selloquarto, un quartillo, anos de mil ochocientos ties y ochocientos ties y ochocientos once," "Valga por el rey nado del S.D. Fernando VII," and "a 1811 y 1812"--Stamps, p. 1.

Binding note

Sewn with red thread; in cloth case.

Language note

Text in K'iche'.

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.

Publications about

Crónicas indígenas de Guatemala / Adrián Recinos. Guatemala : Editorial Universitaria, 1957.

Cite as

Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 102, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Place name(s)

Guatemala Totonicapán.

Title supplied by Gates

• Historia Quiche

In

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

OCLC

78408505

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