• Discursos antiquos : manuscript, [1803].

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Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Date:
  • [1803].
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Call number:
  • C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 181)
Extent:
  • 1 v. (40 leaves) : paper ; 20 x 15 cm.
Description:
  • Title from William Gates inventory list.
  • Decoration: 2 full-page drawings in brown and red ink, one drawing is of the Cross (both badly damaged by acidity of the iron-gall ink).
Relation:
  • Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s
Text language:
  • Text in K'iche' and Spanish.
Binding note:
  • Parchment wrapper with remnants of leather end ties.
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:
  • 1803-01-01T00:00:00Z
Abstract:
  • Unidentified Christian devotional texts, possibly relating in part to the Passion. According to a note on p. 97, this is a manuscript copy extracted from an older manuscript by one Juan Cipriano (also spelled "Cypriano" and "Sipriano"), Maestro de Coro at command of God and the Padre Cura Don Andres Henriquez, on March 26, 1803. Paper damaged with loss of text.
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/dcmp48sr10n
Location:
  • Special Collections C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 181)
Edm rights:
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Range label:
  • Logical
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