• Sermones : manuscript, [between 1600 and 1625].

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Date:

• [between 1600 and 1625].

Subject:

• Pokonchi Indians—Guatemala—Religion
• Pokonchi language—Texts
• Sermons—Guatemala
• Indigenous Studies

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9939164983506421

Call number:

• C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 232

Extent:

• 1 v. (209 leaves) : paper ; 21 x 14 cm.

Spatial:

• Guatemala

Relation:

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

Text language:

• Text in Pokonchi.

Binding note:

• Leather cover.

Provenance:

• Previously owned by the "Fiscal" Juan de Morales, who made an entry in Pokonchi on fol. 113v praising Viana and his work, "hin ahtih fiscal [I the teacher] Juan de Morales," May 1, 1750; the volume was later owned by the the chief Indian family of the Caal and bears the name "Don Mariano Caal"; it was acquired by William Gates in 1915 from a descendant of the Caal family through F. J. Smith; 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/1625-12-31T23:59:59Z

Abstract:

• A collection of sermons in Pokonchi by Viana, written around 1600. This volume later came to fray Dionisio de Zuniga who restored it by adding the "sermones" for the missing Sundays, as composed by a "much inferior scholar, fary Gonzalo Ximeno." These Ximeno Sermones, in the writing of Zuniga, comprise fols. 1-116, 197-212. Folios 117-198 are the Viana original.

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/br86b683v

Location:

• Special Collections C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 232

Creator:

• Viana, Francisco de, ca. 1530-1609

Author:

• Viana, Francisco de, ca. 1530-1609

Contributor:

• Zuniga, Dionisio de, ca. 1550-ca. 1620
• Ximeno, Gonzalo, 16th cent

Exhibit Tags:

• Poqomchi’

Genre:

• Manuscripts, Maya 17th century.
• Sermons Guatemala 17th century.
• Paper.
• Leather bindings
• manuscripts (documents)