• Teologia Indorum : manuscript, [1759].

Collections:
  • Mesoamerican Manuscripts
  • Robert Garrett
  • Digitized Manuscripts
  • Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
  • Indigenous Cultures
Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Date:
  • [1759].
Subject:
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Call number:
  • C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 177)
  • Electronic Resource
Extent:
  • 1 v. (140 leaves) : paper ; 22 x 16 cm.
Type:
  • Pen works
  • Paper
  • Texts
Description:
  • Scribe: Written by Thomas Ossorio at San Sebastian, Lemoa [Guatemala] in a month and four days, ending Mar. 1, 1759.
  • Decoration: 2 pen-and-ink drawings, including Cross with Virgin and St. John (fol. 1 v), and Virgin and Child (fol. 113v). Also includes smaller pen-and-ink sketches of heads of angels (fols. 27r, 127v, 128r).
Title sort:
  • Teologia Indorum : manuscript, [1759].
Alternative:
  • Ms. C
Spatial:
  • Guatemala
Relation:
  • Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s
Text language:
  • Text in K'iche' and Latin.
Binding note:
  • Parchment wrapper stiffened with paper pasteboard, some of which is extant, with unidentified text (17th c.?) in a Mesoamerican language, probably K'iche'.
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:
  • 1759-01-01T00:00:00Z
Abstract:
  • Brief Christian lessons drawn from the lives of the saints and the New Testament, with explanations of Christian concepts (virtue, prudence, etc.). Foliated with same folio numbers on recto and verso.
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/h128nh47c
Location:
  • HSVM C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 177)
  • HSVM Electronic Resource
  • ELF1 C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 177)
  • ELF1 Electronic Resource
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Scribe:
  • Ossorio, Thomas
Creator:
  • Vico, Domingo de, 1485-1555
Author:
  • Vico, Domingo de, 1485-1555
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