Item Summary

Contains a Spanish-K'iche' dictionary and other texts, including a catechism, a confessional, a list of numeral classifiers, and a list of plants and common agricultural words (farmer's vocabulary). Cover signed by Alberto Míguez and dated 1745.

Descriptive Information

Title
Abecedario en la lengua que dizen qiche hecho por Mr. Francisco Barrera que han solamente se conpone de el Modo y realidad con que los Judios la Ablan el qual Notiene los Significados que tienen los latinos pero aprendiendo en el lai pronunciaciones lesera Muy facil el saberla Muy bien y con toda brebedad, y este dicho Abecedario lo hize Segun lo que alcanzo a peticion de MR. fr. Gabriel Guerrero se q[ ] en este año de 1745. Fr. Alberto Míguez : manuscript, [1745].
Call Number
C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 160)
Identifier
https://library.princeton.edu/mssimages/garrett-gates%20mesoamerican/garrettgatesmeso160-f1r.jpg
Language
Mayan languages
Date Created
[1745].
Format
Manuscript
Extent
1 v. (134 leaves) : paper ; 21 x 15 cm.
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.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Binding Note
Parchment with remnants of leather end ties; in cloth case.

Discovery Information

Subject
Quiché language—Terms and phrases
Quiché language—Conversation and phrase books—Spanish
Quiché language—Dictionaries—Spanish
Materia medica, Vegetable—Guatemala—18th century
Quiché language—Texts
Indigenous Studies

Physical Characteristics

File Count
214

Institutional Information

Collection
Mesoamerican Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b7f0806b-732b-4f01-92c0-635643af6901/manifest