Theologia Indorum : manuscript, [1759].

Format:

Manuscript
Book

Date:

[1759].

Subject:

Christianity—Guatemala
Quiché language—Texts
Indigenous Studies

View in catalog:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9935363093506421

Call number:

C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 177)

Extent:

1 v. (140 leaves) : paper ; 22 x 16 cm.

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).

Alternative:

Ms. C
Teologia Indorum

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:

Special Collections C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 177)

Scribe:

Ossorio, Thomas

Creator:

Vico, Domingo de, 1485-1555

Author:

Vico, Domingo de, 1485-1555

Exhibit Tags:

Genre:

Pen works 18th century.
Paper.
manuscripts (documents)