Zakicoxol : manuscript, [18--].

Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
  • Mayan languages
  • K'iche'
  • Spanish
Description
1 v. (28 leaves) : paper ; 22 x 17 cm.

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Location Call Number Status Location Service Notes
Special Collections - Manuscripts C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 171) 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
      Getty AAT genre
      Contained in
      Robert Garrett collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s.
      Compiled/​Created
      [18--].
      Linking notes
      Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).
      Summary note
      Ms. dance-drama, of the Guatemala version of the Dance of the Conquest of Mexico. The text is unusual in that the Indians speak K'iche' and the Spaniards speak Mayanized Spanish, both in Mayan semantic couplets. The plot deals with the coming of the Spaniards to Mexico and the defeat and conversion of the Indians. The title role of Zaqi Q'oxol or "White Demon" is played by an Indian who undertakes to represent paganism in the debate (the role is comic and licentious). Text incomplete.
      Binding note
      Disbound (one gathering).
      Language note
      Text in K'iche' and 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.
      Publications about
      Quiché dramas and divinatory calendars / Munro S. Edmonson. New Orleans, La. : Middle American Research Institute, 1997.
      Cite as
      Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 171, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
      Other format(s)
      Also available in an electronic version.
      Other title(s)
      White demon, Ms. E
      In
      Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s
      OCLC
      1340379210
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