Details

Subject(s)

• Chinantec language—Terms and phrases [Browse]
• Chinantec language—Conversation and phrase books—Spanish [Browse]
• Chinantec language—Dictionaries—Spanish [Browse]
• Chinantec language—Texts [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Donor

Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Former owner

Gates, William, 1863-1940 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Dictionaries [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Dictionaries [Browse]
• Phrase books [Browse]
• Morocco bindings [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Paper [Browse]
• manuscripts (documents) [Browse]

Contained in

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

Compiled/​Created

1860 Apr. 2.

Linking notes

Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).

Summary note

Contains phrases and vocabulary in Chinanteca and Spanish, written by a Frenchman, A. Boucara.

Binding note

Half green levant.

Language note

Text in Chinantec and Spanish.

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

In

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

OCLC

60355644

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