Choral music miscellany : manuscript, 1635.

Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
  • Mayan languages
  • Spanish
  • Latin
Description
1 v. (35 leaves) : paper ; 31 x 22 cm.

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Location Call Number Status Location Service Notes
Special Collections - Manuscripts C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 258) Browse related items Reading Room Request
    Special Collections - Manuscripts C0744 Browse related items Reading Room Request

      Details

      Subject(s)
      Donor
      Former owner
      Rare books genre
      Getty AAT genre
      Contained in
      Robert Garrett collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s.
      Compiled/​Created
      1635.
      Linking notes
      Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).
      Summary note
      Choral settings of sacred texts in Nahuatl, Latin, and Spanish, including "Requiem eternam dona eis domine...," "Victoria victoria aqui canvencido [convencido]," and "Dominus dixit ad me filius meus est..." One note in Latin states the manuscript was written by the Maestro Tomas Pascual, 22 December 1635 (fol. 5r).
      Notes
      • Title from wrapper.
      • Musical notation: 5 line staves; square notes.
      Binding note
      Unbound sheets in a raw hide cover. Rebound in modern paper wrapper with leather ties.
      Language note
      Text in Spanish, Latin, and Nahuatl.
      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. 258, 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
      1340488106
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