Details

Subject(s)

• Tzotzil language—Terms and phrases [Browse]
• Tzotzil language—Dictionaries [Browse]
• Tzotzil language—Texts [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Former owner

• Orozco y Jiménez, Francisco, 1864-1936 [Browse]
• León, Nicolás, 1859-1929 [Browse]
• Gates, William, 1863-1940 [Browse]

Donor

Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

San Cristóbal de Las Casas (Mexico) [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Dictionaries [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Dictionaries [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Paper [Browse]
• manuscripts (documents) [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

Copy of a Tzotzil dictionary. Date of the original manuscript is unknown.

Binding note

Paper covers.

Language note

Text in Tzotzil.

Provenance

Manuscript copy made by order of Archbishop Francisco Orozco y Jimenez of Guadalajara (1864-1936), who during the years before the Carranza-Alvarado regime, had gathered all the manuscripts he could find through Chiapas, into the Episcopal library of San Cristóbal de las Casas (Chiapas, Mexico); he later gave this manuscript along with several others to Dr. Nicolás León, who sold them to Paul Wilkinson; later acquired by William Gates (purchase from Wilkinson); 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. William E. Gates later acquired the manuscript from Wilkinson.

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett; 1949.

Cite as

Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 253, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Place name(s)

Mexico Guadalajara.

In

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

OCLC

60355639

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