• Titulos de los señores del Reino del Quichè : manuscript, [1501-1781?].

Collections:

• Mesoamerican Manuscripts
• Robert Garrett
• Digitized Manuscripts
• Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
• Indigenous Cultures

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Date:

• [1501-1781?].

Subject:

• Quiché Indians—History—Sources
• Cakchikel Indians—History—Sources
• Quiché language—Texts
• Indians of Central America—Guatemala—History—Sources
• Guatemala—History—To 1821—Sources
• Central America—History—16th century—Sources
• Paper
• Vellum bindings (Binding)—16th century

Language:

• Mayan languages
• Spanish; Castilian

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9939075643506421

Call number:

• C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 101)
• Electronic Resource

Extent:

• 1 v. (39 leaves) : paper ; 32 x 23 cm.

Type:

• Texts
• Paper
• Vellum bindings (Binding)
• Sources

Description:

• The vellum wrapper has at least 3 titles. The first title, 16th c. "Varios papeles de la [ ] henango[?]"; the second title, 17th c.? "Incompletos y podridos"; and the third, stamped in ink, 19th c. "Titulo de reyes de Guatemala en Quiche."
• A complete transcription of this manuscript has been published MATSUMOTO, MALLORY. LAND, POLITICS, AND MEMORY IN FIVE NIJAIB KICHE TTULOS the title and proof of our ancestors. S.l.: UNIV PR OF COLORADO, 2017.

Title sort:

• Titulos de los señores del Reino del Quichè : manuscript, [1501-1781?].

Alternative:

• Titulo de reyes de Guatemala en Quiche
• Varios papeles de la [ ] henango
• Incompletos y podridos

Spatial:

• Guatemala

Relation:

• Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s

Text language:

• Texts in K'iche' and Spanish.

Binding note:

• Original limp vellum.

Provenance:

• The documents are housed in the original limp vellum wrapper of the Archives, inscribed: "Titulo de reyes de Guatemala en Quiche," and presented by the keeper of the Archives in 1856 to Brasseur de Bourbourg. Also contains the bookplates of Brasseur de Bourbourg and Alphonse L. Pinart with his shelfmark "E.4/53"; later acquired by William E. 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:

• Brasseur de Bourbourg, abbé, 1814-1874
• Pinart, Alphonse L. (Alphonse Louis), 1852-1911
• Gates, William, 1863-1940

Created:

• 1501-01-01T00:00:00Z/1781-12-31T23:59:59Z

Abstract:

• Consists of a document in K'iche' "Titulo Real de don Francisco Izquin ultimo Ahpop alel, o Rey de Quiché," (11 leaves), dated Nov. 22, 1588 and signed by the Last King of the Quichés and the eight other princes. There is a narrative account (fols. 15-22) of the events of the first conquest of the highlands by the Quiché ancestors in the year [1300], dated May 7, 1524 and signed by hieroglyphs with names of seven K'iche' princesses, three of the Spanish conquerors, including Pedro de Alvarado "Ande mi con Pedro Alvarado Jues Capitan Español Conquistador," and also the four friars accompanying the expedition. Also includes several official documents dating from 1587-ca. 1781 from Xelahuh, now Quetzaltenango.

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/r781wh31g

Location:

• HSVM C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 101)
• HSVM Electronic Resource
• ELF1 C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 101)
• ELF1 Electronic Resource

Edm rights:

• No Known Copyright

Contributor:

• Alvarado, Pedro de, 1485?-1541

Available online:

• Digital content