Sermones - Viana, Francisco de, ca. 1530-1609.; Zuniga, Dionisio de, ca. 1550-ca. 1620.; Ximeno, Gonzalo, 16th cent.; Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961; Gates, William, 1863-1940 (1600)
A collection of sermons in Pokonchi by Viana, written around 1600. This volume later came to fray Dionisio de Zuniga who restored it by adding the "sermones" for the missing Sundays, as composed by a "much inferior scholar, fary Gonzalo Ximeno." These Ximeno Sermones, in the writing of Zuniga, comprise fols. 1-116, 197-212. Folios 117-198 are the Viana original.
Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 232, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
Text in Pokonchi.
Previously owned by the "Fiscal" Juan de Morales, who made an entry in Pokonchi on fol. 113v praising Viana and his work, "hin ahtih fiscal [I the teacher] Juan de Morales," May 1, 1750; the volume was later owned by the the chief Indian family of the Caal and bears the name "Don Mariano Caal"; it was acquired by William Gates in 1915 from a descendant of the Caal family through F. J. Smith; 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.
Leather cover.
Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).
Also available in an electronic version.
Keywords: Pokonchi Indians -- Guatemala -- Religion; Pokonchi language -- Texts; Sermons -- Guatemala; Manuscripts, Maya -- 17th century; Sermons -- Guatemala -- 17th century; Paper; Leather bindings