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

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Date:

• [between 1600 and 1650].

Subject:

• Quiché Indians—History—Sources
• Cakchikel Indians—History—Sources
• Quiché language—Texts
• Indigenous peoples of Central America—Guatemala—History—Sources
• Guatemala—History—To 1821—Sources
• Indigenous Studies

View in catalog:

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

Call number:

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

Extent:

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

Description:

• Decoration: 3 pen drawings.

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:

• Special Collections C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 103)

Exhibit Tags:

• K’iche’

Genre:

• Manuscripts, Maya 17th century.
• Paper.
• Vellum bindings
• manuscripts (documents)