• Abecedario en la lengua que dizen qiche hecho por Mr. Francisco Barrera que han solamente se conpone de el Modo y realidad con que los Judios la Ablan el qual Notiene los Significados que tienen los latinos pero aprendiendo en el lai pronunciaciones lesera Muy facil el saberla Muy bien y con toda brebedad, y este dicho Abecedario lo hize Segun lo que alcanzo a peticion de MR. fr. Gabriel Guerrero se q[ ] en este año de 1745. Fr. Alberto Míguez : manuscript, [1745].

Collections:

• Mesoamerican Manuscripts
• Indigenous Cultures

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Date:

• [1745].

Subject:

• Quiché language—Terms and phrases
• Quiché language—Conversation and phrase books—Spanish
• Quiché language—Dictionaries—Spanish
• Materia medica, Vegetable—Guatemala—18th century
• Quiché language—Texts
• Dictionaries—18th century
• Phrase books—18th century
• Paper
• Vellum bindings (Binding)
• Dictionaries

Language:

• English

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9935285833506421

Call number:

• C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 160)

Extent:

• 1 v. (134 leaves) : paper ; 21 x 15 cm.

Type:

• Dictionaries

Spatial:

• Guatemala

Relation:

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

Text language:

• Text in K'iche' and Spanish.

Binding note:

• Parchment with remnants of leather end ties; 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:

• 1745-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abstract:

• Contains a Spanish-K'iche' dictionary and other texts, including a catechism, a confessional, a list of numeral classifiers, and a list of plants and common agricultural words (farmer's vocabulary). Cover signed by Alberto Míguez and dated 1745.

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/dcd791st51v

Location:

• Special Collections C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 160)

Edm rights:

• Copyright Not Evaluated

Range label:

• Logical

Creator:

• Berrera, Francisco

Author:

• Berrera, Francisco

Contributor:

• Míguez, Alberto, 18th century

Available online:

• library.princeton.edu