Details

Subject(s)

• 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]
• manuscripts (documents) [Browse]

Contained in

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

Compiled/​Created

[1803].

Linking notes

Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).

Summary note

Unidentified Christian devotional texts, possibly relating in part to the Passion. According to a note on p. 97, this is a manuscript copy extracted from an older manuscript by one Juan Cipriano (also spelled "Cypriano" and "Sipriano"), Maestro de Coro at command of God and the Padre Cura Don Andres Henriquez, on March 26, 1803. Paper damaged with loss of text.

Notes

• Title from William Gates inventory list.
• Decoration: 2 full-page drawings in brown and red ink, one drawing is of the Cross (both badly damaged by acidity of the iron-gall ink).

Binding note

Parchment wrapper with remnants of leather end ties.

Language note

Text in 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. 181, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

In

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

OCLC

60355588

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