Details

Subject(s)

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

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Former owner

• Gates, William, 1863-1940 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Vellum bindings (Binding) [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

Consists of liturgical choral music, with words and running directions on conduct of the service (fols. 4v-20v). Followed by the "Rosario en Quiché," written in the same hand (fols. 43r-45v) .

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Musical notation: 4-line staves with square notes.

Binding note

Vellum wrapper with remnants of leather end ties.

Language note

Text in Latin and 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. 191, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

In

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

OCLC

1340487035

Statement on language in description

Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage. Read more...