• Acuerdos sobre la manera de efectuar se el matrimonio : Palacio del Gobierno, Guatemala, 1883 Oct. 9.

Collections:

• Mesoamerican Manuscripts
• Indigenous Cultures

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Date:

• 1883 Oct. 9.

Subject:

• Marriage (Maya law)
• Marriage—Guatemala
• Kekchi Indians—Guatemala
• Kekchi language—Texts
• Indigenous Studies
• Legal documents—Guatemala—19th century
• Paper

Language:

• English

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9939206833506421

Call number:

• C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 246)

Extent:

• 1 v. (12 leaves) : paper ; 21 x 16 cm.

Description:

• Title from cover.

Spatial:

• Guatemala

Relation:

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

Text language:

• K'eq'chi and Spanish in parallel columns.

Binding note:

• Bound with a strip of leather and string at spine.

Provenance:

• Previously owned by William Gates (acquired from the Alcalde in Chamelco); 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:

• 1883-01-01T00:00:00Z/1009-12-31T23:59:59Z

Abstract:

• Consists of 16th-century land documents from Guatemala, attested in 1815.

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/dc5h73q7505

Location:

• Special Collections C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 246)

Edm rights:

• Copyright Not Evaluated

Range label:

• Logical

Available online:

• library.princeton.edu