Details

Subject(s)

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

Getty AAT genre

• Paper [Browse]

Contained in

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

Compiled/​Created

[1892-1900].

Linking notes

Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).

Summary note

Fragment of a manuscript phrase book of useful words and phrases in K'iche' and Spanish, including conversations and sample letters such as how to address in speech and writing a judge, a "jefe politico," or the president of the Republic.

Notes

Origin: Written in Santa Maria Chiquimula.

Binding note

In cloth case.

Language note

Written in two columns, Spanish ("En castellano") left; and K'iche', right.

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. 159, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Place name(s)

Guatemala Chiquimula.

Other title(s)

Miguel Tum - Quichè vocabulario #159

In

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

OCLC

53199895

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