Details

Subject(s)

• Cakchikel language—Terms and phrases [Browse]
• Cakchikel language—Dictionaries—Spanish [Browse]
• Cakchikel language—Texts [Browse]
• Cakchikel Indians—Language [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Donor

Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Former owner

Gates, William, 1863-1940 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Dictionaries [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Dictionaries [Browse]
• Vellum bindings [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Paper [Browse]
• manuscripts (documents) [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 a dictionary compiled by fray Felix Solano and arranged Spanish-Kaqchikel. Includes a table of arabic numbers translated into Kakchiquel (pp. 599-609). This dictionary probably served as the model for all the various later copies and "vocabularios," those giving the Spanish first. Written in an unidentified 16th-century hand, with additions at back in a later 17th-century hand.

Notes

Title from p. 1.

Binding note

Original parchment binding, with evidence of leather ties.

Language note

Text in Kaqchikel and Spanish.

Provenance

Contains the inscription "Este diccionario [ ] escrito por el Dr. P. Fr. Felix Solano religioso de San Fran[co]," written in pen on front flyleaf. 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. 226, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Other format(s)

Microfilm available for duplication.

In

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

OCLC

1340484947

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