Details

Subject(s)

• Christianity—Guatemala [Browse]
• Quiché language—Texts [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Former owner

• Gates, William, 1863-1940 [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Paper [Browse]

Contained in

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

Compiled/​Created

[15--].

Linking notes

Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).

Summary note

Incomplete ms. beginning on p. 3, possibly in the hand of Domingo de Vico, containing Christian lessons drawn from the lives of the saints and the New Testament, with explanations of Christian concepts (virtue, prudence, etc.). Paper damaged with loss of text, with 19th-century pagination.

Binding note

Parchment wrapper.

Language note

Text in K'iche' and Latin.

Script

Written in a Humanistic cursive dating from the second half of the 16th century.

Provenance

Discovered in the town of Cunén; 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. 178, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Place name(s)

Guatemala Cunén.

Other title(s)

Teologia Indorum

In

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

OCLC

1340466177

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