Details

Subject(s)

• Quiché language—Grammar [Browse]
• Quiché language—Texts [Browse]
• Quiché Indians—Religion [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Former owner

• Brasseur de Bourbourg, abbé, 1814-1874 [Browse]
• Pinart, Alphonse L. (Alphonse Louis), 1852-1911 [Browse]
• Gates, William, 1863-1940 [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Sermons [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Paper [Browse]

Contained in

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

Compiled/​Created

[between 1700 and 1750].

Linking notes

Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).

Summary note

Sermons, blessings, and other brief texts in K'iche' written by Damián Delgado and other Dominican friars of the Order of "N.P. Santo Domingo."

Notes

Title supplied by cataloger.

Binding note

Quarter calf with marbled boards.

Language note

Text in K'iche' and Spanish.

Contents

• 1. (p. 1-18): [Delgado, Damián] "Compendío del arte."
• 2. (p. 19-40): [Delgado, Damián] "Doctrina Christiana en lengua Quiché es de Fr. Damián Delgado."
• 3. (p. 41-71): "La Mudança de Varas y Benedicion."

Provenance

Bookplates of Brasseur de Bourbourg and Alphonse L. Pinart with his shelfmark "E.3/108"; later acquired by William E. 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. 165, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

In

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

OCLC

60355099

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