• Zakicoxol : manuscript, [1800-1824?].

Collections:
  • Mesoamerican Manuscripts
  • Robert Garrett
  • Digitized Manuscripts
  • Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
  • Indigenous Cultures
Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Date:
  • [1800-1824?].
Subject:
Language:
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Call number:
  • C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 169)
  • Electronic Resource
Extent:
  • 1 v. (48 leaves) : paper ; 21 x 16 cm.
Type:
  • Texts
  • Paper
Description:
  • Paper damaged with loss of text.
Title sort:
  • Zakicoxol : manuscript, [1800-1824?].
Alternative:
  • White demon, Ms. A
Spatial:
  • Mexico
Relation:
  • Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s
Text language:
  • Text in K'iche' and Spanish.
Binding note:
  • Disbound (one large qathering and a portion of another).
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:
  • 1800-01-01T00:00:00Z/1824-12-31T23:59:59Z
Abstract:
  • Ms. dance-drama of the Guatemala version of the Dance of the Conquest of Mexico. The text is unusual in that the Indians speak K'iche' and the Spaniards speak Mayanized Spanish, both in Mayan semantic couplets. The plot deals with the coming of the Spaniards to Mexico and the defeat and conversion of the Indians. The title role of Zaqi Q'oxol or "White Demon" is played by an Indian who undertakes to represent paganism in the debate (the role is comic and licentious). Text incomplete.
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/n870zv09s
Location:
  • HSVM C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 169)
  • HSVM Electronic Resource
  • ELF1 C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 169)
  • ELF1 Electronic Resource
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
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