• Document concerning the sale of lands, 1775 July 5.

Collections:

• Mesoamerican Manuscripts
• Indigenous Cultures

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Date:

• 1775 July 5.

Subject:

• Quiché Indians
• Quiché language—Texts
• Guatemala—History—18th century—Sources
• Indigenous Studies
• Legal documents—Guatemala—18th century
• Paper

Language:

• English

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9939081233506421

Extent:

• 2 leaves : paper ; 31 x 21 cm.

Spatial:

• Guatemala

Relation:

• Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s
• Multi-title collection including Will of Joseph Chen, and 51 other(s).

Text language:

• Text in K'iche'.

Binding note:

• in soft leather case, with vellum ties and buttons.

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:

• 1775-01-01T00:00:00Z/705-12-31T23:59:59Z

Abstract:

• Land document, no place indicated.

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/dcdb78tq37m

Edm rights:

• No Known Copyright

Range label:

• Logical

Available online:

• library.princeton.edu