• Quichè phrase book fragment : manuscript, [1892-1900].

Collections:

• Mesoamerican Manuscripts
• Indigenous Cultures

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Date:

• [1892-1900].

Subject:

• Quiché language—Terms and phrases
• Quiché language—Conversation and phrase books—Spanish
• Quiché language—Dictionaries—Spanish
• Quiché language—Texts
• Phrase books—19th century
• Paper
• Dictionaries

Language:

• English

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9935235373506421

Call number:

• C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 159)

Extent:

• 24 leaves : paper ; 32 x 22 cm.

Type:

• Dictionaries

Description:

• Origin: Written in Santa Maria Chiquimula.

Alternative:

• Miguel Tum - Quichè vocabulario #159

Spatial:

• Guatemala

Relation:

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

Text language:

• Written in two columns, Spanish ("En castellano") left; and K'iche', right.

Binding note:

• In cloth case.

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:

• 1892-01-01T00:00:00Z/1900-12-31T23:59:59Z

Abstract:

• Fragment of a manuscript phrase book of useful words and phrases in K'iche' and Spanish, including conversations and sample letters such as how to address in speech and writing a judge, a "jefe politico," or the president of the Republic.

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/dc6t053t32p

Location:

• Special Collections C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 159)

Edm rights:

• Copyright Not Evaluated

Range label:

• Logical

Available online:

• library.princeton.edu