- Libro de confradía de San Nicolás : manuscript, 1663-1852
- Collections:
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- Mesoamerican Manuscripts
- Robert Garrett
- Digitized Manuscripts
- Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
- Indigenous Cultures
- Format:
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- Manuscript
- Book
- Date:
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- 1663-1852.
- Subject:
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- Confradía de San Nicolás (Sacapulas, Guatemala)
- Cofradías (Latin America)
- Confraternities—Guatemala—Sacapulas
- Quiché Indians—Religion
- Quiché language—Texts
- Sacapulas (Guatemala)—History
- Account books—Guatemala—Sacapulas—17th century
- Account books—Guatemala—Sacapulas—18th century
- Account books—Guatemala—Sacapulas—19th century
- Financial records—Guatemala—Sacapulas—17th century
- Financial records—Guatemala—Sacapulas—18th century
- Financial records—Guatemala—Sacapulas—19th century
- Paper
- Language:
- View in catalog:
- Call number:
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- C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 168)
- Electronic Resource
- Extent:
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- 1 v. (264 leaves) : paper ; 21 x 15 cm.
- Type:
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- Texts
- Account books
- Financial records
- Paper
- Description:
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- Title from Gates inventory list.
- Title sort:
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- Libro de confradía de San Nicolás : manuscript, 1663-1852.
- Spatial:
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- Guatemala
- Relation:
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- Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s
- Text language:
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- Text in K'iche' with some Spanish.
- Binding note:
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- Original parchment wrappers.
- Provenance:
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- 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:
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- Gift; Robert Garrett; 1949.
- Donor:
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- Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961
- Former owner:
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- Gates, William, 1863-1940
- Created:
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- 1663-01-01T00:00:00Z/1852-12-31T23:59:59Z
- Abstract:
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- Consists of financial accounts of the confradía de San Nicolás in Sacapulas, dating from Apr. 17, 1663 - Aug. 29, 1852. A typical entry (May 11, 1802) certifies that the outgoing mayordomos are turning over exactly 502 [tostones?] to the new administration. Other entries list expenditures for particular fiestas and other cult duties. Also includes some transcriptions of legal documents in K'iche'. Some later accounts in Spanish.
- Identifier:
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- ark:/88435/5712m9818
- Location:
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- HSVM C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 168)
- HSVM Electronic Resource
- ELF1 C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 168)
- ELF1 Electronic Resource
- Edm rights:
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- No Known Copyright
- Contributor:
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- Confradía de San Nicolás (Sacapulas, Guatemala)
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