• Doctrina en Quichè : manuscript, [187-?].

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Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Date:
  • [187-?].
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Call number:
  • C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 193)
Extent:
  • 1 v. (63 leaves) : paper ; 18 x 12 cm.
Description:
  • Title from cardboard wrapper, supplied by Gates.
Spatial:
  • Guatemala
Relation:
  • Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s
Text language:
  • Text in K'iche', Spanish, and Latin.
Binding note:
  • Sewn with cardboard covers (removed).
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:
  • 1870-01-01T00:00:00Z
Abstract:
  • A miscellany of liturgical texts consisting of two gatherings of different dimensions and length, written in at least two different hands. The first gathering of 40 leaves contains miscellaneous liturgical texts primarily in K'iche', including a translated Creed and Salve Regina. The second gathering of 17 leaves contains prayers, hymns, and other liturical texts in Latin, K'iche', and Spanish. Also includes a chart of the general and movable feasts, a litany based on the names of the Virgin (fols. 45r-47r), and a calendar entitled "Tabla general de las fiestas" with dates from 1870-1878 (fols. 61v-63r).
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/dcdz011245w
Location:
  • Special Collections C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 193)
Edm rights:
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Range label:
  • Logical
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