Item Summary

Contains a grammar of K'iche', possibly following the format of the grammar of Antonio de Nebrija (pp. 1-53). Together with a catechism (pp. 55-71); a Latin prayer (pp. 72-73); an unidentified K'iche' text (pp. 75-78); two remedies, one of them "comes from China this year of 1733" (p. 79); a "formulario," signed by Fr. Ignacio Rafael Macal in 1733, with notation "Lo que me ha valido esta conventualidad de Totonicapan desde el dia de 17 de agosto de este año de 1728. Promete ahora 31 partimos a 6 ps. 7 rd. - u o ps. 7 rs." (pp. 80-82); and miscellaneous verse in Spanish (pp. 85-87).

Descriptive Information

Title
Arte de lengua qiche and other texts : manuscript, [between 1700 and 1750].
Call Number
C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 164)
Identifier
https://library.princeton.edu/mssimages/garrett-gates%20mesoamerican/garrettgatesmeso164-f1r.jpg
Language
Mayan languages
Date Created
[between 1700 and 1750].
Format
Manuscript
Extent
47 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
Limp vellum wrapper with leather end ties.

Discovery Information

Subject
Quiché language—Grammar
Quiché language—Texts
Poetry, Spanish—18th century
Indigenous Studies

Physical Characteristics

File Count
98

Institutional Information

Collection
Mesoamerican Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/c67cfebc-806e-44f7-98f4-572d2fd7cddb/manifest