• Arte de lengua qiche and other texts : manuscript, [between 1700 and 1750].

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Date:

• [between 1700 and 1750].

Subject:

• Quiché language—Grammar
• Quiché language—Texts
• Poetry, Spanish—18th century
• Indigenous Studies

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9935286573506421

Call number:

• C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 164)

Extent:

• 47 leaves : paper ; 21 x 15 cm.

Spatial:

• Guatemala

Relation:

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

Text language:

• Text in K'iche', Spanish, and Latin.

Binding note:

• Limp vellum wrapper with leather 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:

• 1700-01-01T00:00:00Z/1750-12-31T23:59:59Z

Abstract:

• Contains a grammar of K'iche', possibly following the format of the grammar of Antonio de Nebrija (pp. 1-53). Together with a catechism (pp. 55-71); a Latin prayer (pp. 72-73); an unidentified K'iche' text (pp. 75-78); two remedies, one of them "comes from China this year of 1733" (p. 79); a "formulario," signed by Fr. Ignacio Rafael Macal in 1733, with notation "Lo que me ha valido esta conventualidad de Totonicapan desde el dia de 17 de agosto de este año de 1728. Promete ahora 31 partimos a 6 ps. 7 rd. - u o ps. 7 rs." (pp. 80-82); and miscellaneous verse in Spanish (pp. 85-87).

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/dc2514nx84z

Location:

• Special Collections C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 164)

Exhibit Tags:

• K’iche’

Genre:

• Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric.
• Manuscripts, Maya 18th century.
• Paper.
• Vellum bindings
• manuscripts (documents)