• Theologia Indorum : manuscript, [16--].

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Date:

• [16--].

Subject:

• Christianity—Guatemala
• Quiché language—Texts
• Indigenous Studies

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9935362323506421

Call number:

• C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 176)

Extent:

• 1 v. (308 leaves) : paper ; 21 x 15 cm.

Description:

• Caption title.

Alternative:

• Teologia Indorum
• Ms. B

Spatial:

• Guatemala

Text language:

• Text in K'iche' and Latin.

Binding note:

• Disbound, laid in heavy leather wrapper with end ties.

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

Abstract:

• Brief Christian lessons drawn from the lives of the saints and the New Testament, with explanations of Christian concepts (virtue, prudence, etc.). Incomplete, with several pages missing (3-13, 18-21, 106-117, 184-187, 214-217, 234-235, 268-269, 355-362).

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/37720g98q

Location:

• Special Collections C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 176)

Creator:

• Vico, Domingo de, 1485-1555

Author:

• Vico, Domingo de, 1485-1555

Exhibit Tags:

• Theologia Indorum
• K’iche’

Genre:

• Paper.
• Leather bindings
• manuscripts (documents)