Details

Subject(s)

• Quiché language—Dictionaries—Spanish [Browse]
• Quiché language—Conversation and phrase books—Spanish [Browse]
• Quiché language—Texts [Browse]
• Quiché language—Terms and phrases [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Former owner

• Gates, William, 1863-1940 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Dictionaries [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Phrase books—18th century [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Dictionaries—18th century [Browse]
• Paper [Browse]

Contained in

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

Compiled/​Created

[17--].

Linking notes

Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).

Summary note

Ms. fragment from a Spanish-K'iche' dictionary. The fragment covers the letters F-P, including Fabriccan-Faxon; Madura-Maldean; Nabegante-Nosea assi; Pazesa-Patio qualquiera. Also includes some K'iche' phrases in translation.

Binding note

In cloth case.

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.

Cite as

Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 162, 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

1340380798

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