• Traducese al Romance castellano, la Relación Mercuriana de la admirable Aparición de nuestra señora la Virgen Maria que esta en la lengua Mexicana Genuina : manuscript, 1709-1718

Collections:
  • Mesoamerican Manuscripts
  • Robert Garrett
  • Digitized Manuscripts
  • Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
  • Indigenous Cultures
Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Date:
  • 1709-1718.
Subject:
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Call number:
  • C0744.02 (Garrett Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 10)
  • Electronic Resource
Extent:
  • 1 v. (74 leaves, numbered as fols. 123-207?) : paper ; 31 x 22 cm.
Type:
  • Manuscript waste (Binding)
  • Paper
Description:
  • Title from fol. 123r.
Title sort:
  • Traducese al Romance castellano, la Relación Mercuriana de la admirable Aparición de nuestra señora la Virgen Maria que esta en la lengua Mexicana Genuina : manuscript, 1709-1718.
Spatial:
  • Mexico
Relation:
  • Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s
Text language:
  • Texts in Spanish and Nahuatl.
Binding note:
  • Bound with various old documents in Nahuatl and Spanish glued together as front and back covers.
Provenance:
  • According to the table of contents four parts are missing from this manuscript (ff. 1-89; 90-122; 135-145; and 150-160). These missing sections are described as being 4to or "en pliego" whereas the present parts of the manuscript are in folio. The manuscript was in its present size when first inventoried for the Boturini collection in 1743. Bears characteristic Boturini Collection inventory mark of either 1743 or 1745 which reads, "No 32 / Invento 8". (Number 32 of the 8th inventory). Later acquired by Jose Luis Bello from the library of Francisco del Paso y Troncoso, ca. 1916. There is a presentation inscription Jose Luis Bello to Dr. Nicolás León on the recto of the second unnumbered preliminary leaf.
Source acquisition:
  • Gift Robert Garrett, 1949.
Donor:
  • Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961
Former owner:
  • Boturini Benaducci, Lorenzo, 1702-1751
  • Paso y Troncoso, Francisco del, 1842-1916
  • Bello, José Luis
  • León, Nicolás, 1859-1929
Created:
  • 1709-01-01T00:00:00Z/1718-12-31T23:59:59Z
Abstract:
  • Contains a history of the apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Nahuatl and Spanish, dated Amecameca, May 6, 1712) and various Catholic religious texts (prayers, sermons, "Doctrina Christiana", poems) in Nahuatl, some translated from published sources. Also includes a short satire (2 pp.) in Nahuatl from a comedy play performed in Tlayacapa in 1682; a "Confesionario" in Spanish and Nahuatl; "Para Ayudar a Bien Morir" in Nahuatl; Prayers in Nahuatl; "Festivo Dia del Alma" in Nahuatl. July 25, 1714 (and prayers-one taken from a published work of 1709). Hymns 1718, 1713, 1682, 1687, 1691, 1692, 1701, 1705, 1706, 1707, 1710, 1713. Translations. The Holy Name. Doctrina. Tlaxocallan, Mar. 17, 1709 (claim to have worked on it 1666-1713, Joseph Antonio Belez de la Fuente Amecameca. Varia 1709).
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/q811kn38z
Location:
  • HSVM C0744.02 (Garrett Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 10)
  • HSVM Electronic Resource
  • ELF1 C0744.02 (Garrett Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 10)
  • ELF1 Electronic Resource
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Creator:
  • Fuente, Jose Antonio Perez de la.
Author:
  • Fuente, Jose Antonio Perez de la.
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