Details

Subject(s)

• Pokonchi Indians—Guatemala—Religion [Browse]
• Pokonchi language—Texts [Browse]
• Sermons—Guatemala [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Former owner

• Gates, William, 1863-1940 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Unbound sheets (Binding)—18th century [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Sermons—Guatemala—18th century [Browse]
• Paper [Browse]

Contained in

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

Compiled/​Created

[1700].

Linking notes

Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).

Summary note

Collection of sermons. Probably formed part of a larger religious miscellany, with contemporary pagination (p. 48-76).

Binding note

Unbound sheets.

Language note

Text in Pokonchi.

Provenance

Numbers 236-241 are practically identical in the writing, but have minor differences in the spacing of line, etc. They may nevertheless have been parts of a single collection; William Gates received them gathered among various pieces, including others in K'iche'; 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. 238, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

In

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

OCLC

60355633

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