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Catecismo pictórico Otomí : manuscript, [between 1775 and 1825].
[between 1775 and 1825].
A pictorial prayer books that contain the catechism of the Catholic Church in picture writing. In this manuscript, as in most surviving examples, the drawings have little relationship to the traditional forms of Mexican Indian manuscript painting. The document has 51 illustrated pages and one gloss. Also there is a curious legend written on a preliminary leaf "Alaja preciosal cogida al enemigo en Sn. Yago del Cerro".
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Item Summary
A pictorial prayer books that contain the catechism of the Catholic Church in picture writing. In this manuscript, as in most surviving examples, the drawings have little relationship to the traditional forms of Mexican Indian manuscript painting. The document has 51 illustrated pages and one gloss. Also there is a curious legend written on a preliminary leaf "Alaja preciosal cogida al enemigo en Sn. Yago del Cerro".
Descriptive Information
- Title
- Catecismo pictórico Otomí : manuscript, [between 1775 and 1825].
- Call Number
- C0744.02 (Garrett Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 3a)
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/gq67js467
- Language
- Spanish
- Date Created
- [between 1775 and 1825].
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 1 v. (26 leaves) : paper, ill. ; 8 x 6 cm.
- Provenance
- The manuscript is undoubtedly one of several manuscripts acquired by J.M.A. Aubin from Francisco Pérez about 1830-1840 (see Aubin, quoted in Boban, 1891, 2: 178,181). It was listed, together with the other "Testerian" manuscript (no. 3b) in the Garrett collection, as lot 238 of a Sotheby and Co. catalog of November, 1936, and four of its pages were reproduced in that catalog (Sotheby and Co., 1936: 35 and plate labeled "lot 238"). It was purchased by Garrett in November of that year through or from Bernard Quaritch. On the verso side of a preliminary leaf is Garrett's accession mark, "R.G., Nov. 1936". The Princeton manuscript was no. 3 of List No. 3 of books and manuscripts deposited by Garrett in the Institute for Advanced Study in 1942.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift Robert Garrett, 1949.
- Rights Statement
- No Known Copyright
- Notes
- Decoration: watercolor illustrations throughout.
- Binding Note
- Paper wrappers, sewn.
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Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 60
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Mesoamerican Manuscripts
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/fb2a0f19-07f5-4b05-99a1-0b887c73a0a3/manifest