• Catecismo pictórico Otomí : manuscript, [between 1775 and 1825].

Created:
  • 1775-01-01T00:00:00Z/1825-12-31T23:59:59Z
Extent:
  • 1 v. (26 leaves) : paper, ill. ; 8 x 6 cm.
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/gq67js467
Language:
  • Spanish; Castilian
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
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Call number:
  • C0744.02 (Garrett Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 3a)
  • Electronic Resource
Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Type:
  • Texts
  • Watercolors (paintings)
  • Paper
Description:
  • Decoration: watercolor illustrations throughout.
Subject:
  • Catholic Church—Catechisms—Otomi
  • Picture-writing—Mexico
  • Otomi language—Texts
  • Watercolors (paintings)—Mexico—18th century
  • Paper
Title sort:
  • Catecismo pictórico Otomí : manuscript, [between 1775 and 1825].
Spatial:
  • Mexico
Text language:
  • Texts in Otomí and Spanish.
Binding note:
  • Paper wrappers, sewn.
Source acquisition:
  • Gift Robert Garrett, 1949.
Date:
  • [between 1775 and 1825].
Abstract:
  • A pictorial prayer books that contain the catechism of the Catholic Church in picture writing. In this manuscript, as in most surviving examples, the drawings have little relationship to the traditional forms of Mexican Indian manuscript painting. The document has 51 illustrated pages and one gloss. Also there is a curious legend written on a preliminary leaf "Alaja preciosal cogida al enemigo en Sn. Yago del Cerro".
Location:
  • HSVM C0744.02 (Garrett Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 3a)
  • HSVM Electronic Resource
  • ELF1 C0744.02 (Garrett Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 3a)
  • ELF1 Electronic Resource
Provenance:
  • The manuscript is undoubtedly one of several manuscripts acquired by J.M.A. Aubin from Francisco Pérez about 1830-1840 (see Aubin, quoted in Boban, 1891, 2: 178,181). It was listed, together with the other "Testerian" manuscript (no. 3b) in the Garrett collection, as lot 238 of a Sotheby and Co. catalog of November, 1936, and four of its pages were reproduced in that catalog (Sotheby and Co., 1936: 35 and plate labeled "lot 238"). It was purchased by Garrett in November of that year through or from Bernard Quaritch. On the verso side of a preliminary leaf is Garrett's accession mark, "R.G., Nov. 1936". The Princeton manuscript was no. 3 of List No. 3 of books and manuscripts deposited by Garrett in the Institute for Advanced Study in 1942.
Former owner:
  • Aubin, J. M. A. (Joseph Marius Alexis), b. 1802
Relation:
  • Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s
Donor:
  • Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961
Alternative:
  • Testerian manuscripts
  • Otomí catechism
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