• Theologia Indorum : manuscript, [15--].

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Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Date:
  • [15--].
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Call number:
  • C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 227)
Extent:
  • 1 v. (232 leaves) : paper ; 21 x 16 cm.
Type:
  • Paper
  • Leather bindings (Binding)
  • Texts
Title sort:
  • Theologia Indorum : manuscript, [15--].
Alternative:
  • Teologia Indorum
Spatial:
  • Guatemala
Relation:
  • Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s
Text language:
  • Text in K'iche', Kaqchikel and Tzutuhil.
Binding note:
  • Leather (unidentified).
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:
  • 1500-01-01T00:00:00Z
Abstract:
  • Contains texts written in several unidentified hands, all of the 16th century, one of these (of 30 pages) being in K'iche'. A notation on the inside of the cover says "Tzutuhil," The greater part of the volume is clearly Kaqchikel, but the first section (fols. 71-100), different in writing entirely, with red initial letters running all through the text, uses the specifice Tzutuhil words "ca-tte, ca-tte," which belong to Atitlan, the capital of the old Tzutuhil kingdom. Tzutuhil is much closer to Kaqchikel than is K'iche', in spite of its being almost surrounded by K'iche'-speaking towns. There are only two other known Tzutuhil mss. (both in the Bibliothèque nationale de France). It is to be noted that the texts in this volume do not use the special characters found in all Kaqchikel and K'iche' texts after about the middle or late 16th century, until the languages, and learning, became so run down that their use ceased.
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/cv43p520w
Location:
  • HSVM C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 227)
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Range label:
  • Logical
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