Details

Subject(s)

• Zoque Indians—Mexico—Religion [Browse]
• Zoque language—Texts [Browse]
• Sermons—Mexico [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]

Getty AAT genre

• Sermons—Mexico [Browse]
• 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

Manuscript copy of a collection of sermons by one fray Franco. de Toro.

Notes

Spine title.

Reproduction note

Also available on microfilm.

Binding note

Cardboard covers.

Language note

Text in Zoque.

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); there is an autograph presentation from Orozco y Jimenez to Dr. Nicolás León, dated Oct. 15, 1907 on front flyleaf; León sold the manuscript to Paul Wilkinson; William Gates later acquired the manuscript 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.

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett; 1949.

Cite as

Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 255, 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

60355641

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