Details

Subject(s)

• Chol language—Texts [Browse]
• Chol language—Terms and phrases [Browse]
• Chol language—Grammar [Browse]
• Chol Indians—Language [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Donor

Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Former owner

Gates, William, 1863-1940 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Morocco bindings [Browse]

Contained in

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

Compiled/​Created

[19--].

Linking notes

Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).

Summary note

Contains a vocabulary of 4000 words, a Grammar, and a Doctrina. This is a facsimile copy made by William E. Gates of the original manuscript, which was written at San Lucas de Chol, in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala in 1685. It was compiled from the "Libre Grande" of fray Franco. Moran, the first missionary to settle among the Lacandones and Choles, or Putunes. The second part of the manuscript, the Vocabulary, was finished in 1695 at Dolores, among the Lacandones.

Notes

Spine title: Arte Cholti.

Binding note

Half morocco.

Language note

Text in Chorti and Pokomam.

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. 252, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Other title(s)

Arte Cholti

In

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

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