Details

Subject(s)

• Mary Blessed Virgin, Saint—Devotion to—Mexico [Browse]
• Guadalupe, Our Lady of. [Browse]
• Nahuas—Mexico—Religion [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Former owner

• Boturini Benaducci, Lorenzo, 1702-1751 [Browse]
• Paso y Troncoso, Francisco del, 1842-1916 [Browse]
• Bello, José Luis [Browse]
• León, Nicolás, 1859-1929 [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Manuscript waste [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Paper [Browse]

Contained in

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

Compiled/​Created

1709-1718.

Linking notes

Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).

Summary note

Contains a history of the apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Nahuatl and Spanish, dated Amecameca, May 6, 1712) and various Catholic religious texts (prayers, sermons, "Doctrina Christiana", poems) in Nahuatl, some translated from published sources. Also includes a short satire (2 pp.) in Nahuatl from a comedy play performed in Tlayacapa in 1682; a "Confesionario" in Spanish and Nahuatl; "Para Ayudar a Bien Morir" in Nahuatl; Prayers in Nahuatl; "Festivo Dia del Alma" in Nahuatl. July 25, 1714 (and prayers-one taken from a published work of 1709). Hymns 1718, 1713, 1682, 1687, 1691, 1692, 1701, 1705, 1706, 1707, 1710, 1713. Translations. The Holy Name. Doctrina. Tlaxocallan, Mar. 17, 1709 (claim to have worked on it 1666-1713, Joseph Antonio Belez de la Fuente Amecameca. Varia 1709).

Notes

Title from fol. 123r.

Binding note

Bound with various old documents in Nahuatl and Spanish glued together as front and back covers.

Language note

Texts in Spanish and Nahuatl.

Provenance

According to the table of contents four parts are missing from this manuscript (ff. 1-89; 90-122; 135-145; and 150-160). These missing sections are described as being 4to or "en pliego" whereas the present parts of the manuscript are in folio. The manuscript was in its present size when first inventoried for the Boturini collection in 1743. Bears characteristic Boturini Collection inventory mark of either 1743 or 1745 which reads, "No 32 / Invento 8". (Number 32 of the 8th inventory). Later acquired by Jose Luis Bello from the library of Francisco del Paso y Troncoso, ca. 1916. There is a presentation inscription Jose Luis Bello to Dr. Nicolás León on the recto of the second unnumbered preliminary leaf.

Source acquisition

Gift Robert Garrett, 1949.

Cite as

Garrett Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 10, Manuscripts Division, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Place name(s)

Mexico Amecameca.

In

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

OCLC

177663277

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