Details

Subject(s)

• Sis, Manuel [Browse]
• Quiché Indians [Browse]
• Quiché language—Texts [Browse]
• Guatemala—History—18th century—Sources [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Former owner

• Gates, William, 1863-1940 [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Wills—Guatemala—18th century [Browse]
• Paper [Browse]

Contained in

• Robert Garrett collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s.
• Multi-title collection including Will of Joseph Chen, and 51 other(s).

Compiled/​Created

1773 May 12.

Linking notes

• Bound together with a series of wills in K'iche', dated from 1762 to 1777 (includes Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, nos. 106-157).
• Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).

Summary note

Will of Mauel Sis, no place indicated.

Binding note

in soft leather case, with vellum ties and buttons.

Language note

Text in K'iche'.

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

Place name(s)

Guatemala.

In

• Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s
• Multi-title collection including Will of Joseph Chen, and 51 other(s).

OCLC

60355567

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