• Probanca executorio : manuscript, [between 1600 and 1650].

Collections:

• Mesoamerican Manuscripts
• Robert Garrett
• Digitized Manuscripts
• Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
• Indigenous Cultures

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Date:

• [between 1600 and 1650].

Subject:

• Quiché Indians—History—Sources
• Cakchikel Indians—History—Sources
• Quiché language—Texts
• Indians of Central America—Guatemala—History—Sources
• Guatemala—History—To 1821—Sources
• Paper
• Vellum bindings (Binding)

Language:

• Mayan languages

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9935214073506421

Call number:

• C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 103)
• Electronic Resource

Extent:

• 1 v. (25 leaves) : paper ; 22 x 14.5 cm.

Type:

• Paper
• Vellum bindings (Binding)
• Sources
• Texts

Description:

• Decoration: 3 pen drawings.

Title sort:

• Probanca executorio : manuscript, [between 1600 and 1650].

Alternative:

• Title of the Qoyoy lineage

Spatial:

• Guatemala

Relation:

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

Text language:

• Text in K'ich'e.

Binding note:

• Vellum wrapper; lined with a manuscript fragment, probably written in a contemporary hand.

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.

Donor:

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961

Former owner:

• Gates, William, 1863-1940

Created:

• 1600-01-01T00:00:00Z/1650-12-31T23:59:59Z

Abstract:

• A fragmentary account of the Spanish Conquest, probably drawn from the point of view of the Kavek lineage (perhaps of the Qoyoy sub-lineage). In language it is closer to the Popol Vuh. The manuscript includes drawings of the post-conquest second and third palaces of the Quiché kings. There are lists of the several Quiché towns and of the caciques of these towns in the late 16th century. Also mentioned are the Mam-speaking groups of the Quetzaltenango area conquered by the Quiché and an account of the conquest by Pedro de Alvarado, with reference to Capitan decum ahau.

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/37720f02c

Location:

• HSVM C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 103)
• HSVM Electronic Resource
• ELF1 C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 103)
• ELF1 Electronic Resource

Edm rights:

• No Known Copyright

Available online:

• Digital content