• Choral music miscellany : manuscript, 1635

Collections:
  • Mesoamerican Manuscripts
  • Robert Garrett
  • Digitized Manuscripts
  • Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
  • Indigenous Cultures
Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Date:
  • 1635.
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Call number:
  • C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 258)
Extent:
  • 1 v. (35 leaves) : paper ; 31 x 22 cm.
Type:
  • Paper
  • Unbound sheets (Binding)
  • Texts
Description:
  • Title from wrapper.
  • Musical notation: 5 line staves; square notes.
Title sort:
  • Choral music miscellany : manuscript, 1635.
Relation:
  • Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s
Text language:
  • Text in Spanish, Latin, and Nahuatl.
Binding note:
  • Unbound sheets in a raw hide cover. Rebound in modern paper wrapper with leather 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:
  • 1635-01-01T00:00:00Z
Abstract:
  • Choral settings of sacred texts in Nahuatl, Latin, and Spanish, including "Requiem eternam dona eis domine...," "Victoria victoria aqui canvencido [convencido]," and "Dominus dixit ad me filius meus est..." One note in Latin states the manuscript was written by the Maestro Tomas Pascual, 22 December 1635 (fol. 5r).
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/b2774078k
Location:
  • HSVM C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 258)
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Range label:
  • Logical
Contributor:
  • Pascual, Tomás.
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