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—Guatemala—18th century [Browse]
• Unbound sheets (Binding)—18th century [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Paper [Browse]

Contained in

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

Compiled/​Created

[1726-1727].

Linking notes

Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).

Summary note

Miscellaneous phrases in Spanish translated into K'iche' by Thomas Calbo of Chichicastenango. Written in San Sebastian Lemoa and dated Feb. 1, 1726 - Oct. 10, 1727.

Binding note

Unbound sheets.

Language note

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. 163a, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Other format(s)

• Microfilm available for duplication.
• Also available in an electronic version.

Place name(s)

Guatemala San Sebastian.

Other title(s)

Calvo - Quiche vocabulario

In

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

OCLC

60355097

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