• Arte en lengua Cholti : manuscript, [19--].

Collections:

• Mesoamerican Manuscripts
• Indigenous Cultures

Format:

• Book

Date:

• [19--].

Subject:

• Chol language—Texts
• Chol language—Terms and phrases
• Chol language—Grammar
• Chol Indians—Language
• Indigenous Studies
• Morocco bindings (Binding)

Language:

• English

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9939211713506421

Call number:

• C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 252)

Extent:

• 1 v. (34 leaves) ; 20 x 14 cm.

Description:

• Spine title: Arte Cholti.

Alternative:

• Arte Cholti

Spatial:

• Guatemala

Relation:

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

Text language:

• Text in Chorti and Pokomam.

Binding note:

• Half morocco.

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:

• 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abstract:

• Contains a vocabulary of 4000 words, a Grammar, and a Doctrina. This is a facsimile copy made by William E. Gates of the original manuscript, which was written at San Lucas de Chol, in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala in 1685. It was compiled from the "Libre Grande" of fray Franco. Moran, the first missionary to settle among the Lacandones and Choles, or Putunes. The second part of the manuscript, the Vocabulary, was finished in 1695 at Dolores, among the Lacandones.

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/dchq37w104g

Location:

• Special Collections C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 252)

Edm rights:

• Copyright Not Evaluated

Range label:

• Logical

Available online:

• library.princeton.edu