Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).
Summary note
Ms. copy of the by-laws for the Cofradía de la Santa Vera Cruz in Totonicapán, Guatemala. Inscriptions by Balthazar Cobocah, Chupah, 6 May 1776 (p. 17) and May 1777 (p. 52).
Notes
Incipit: En el nombre de Dios Padre y del hijo y del espiritu santo...
Binding note
Original vellum cover, with leather end ties.
Language note
Text in K'iche' with Spanish translation (in successive paragraphs).
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. 104, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
Other format(s)
Microfilm available for duplication.
Place name(s)
Guatemala Totonicapán.
In
Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s
OCLC
1340461377
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