Item Summary

Choral settings of sacred texts in Nahuatl, Latin, and Spanish, including "Requiem eternam dona eis domine...," "Victoria victoria aqui canvencido [convencido]," and "Dominus dixit ad me filius meus est..." One note in Latin states the manuscript was written by the Maestro Tomas Pascual, 22 December 1635 (fol. 5r).

Descriptive Information

Title
Choral music miscellany : manuscript, 1635.
Call Number
C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 258)
Identifier
https://library.princeton.edu/mssimages/garrett-gates%20mesoamerican/garrettgatesmeso258-p8.jpg
Language
Mayan languages
Date Created
1635.
Format
Manuscript
Extent
1 v. (35 leaves) : paper ; 31 x 22 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
No Known Copyright
Notes
Title from wrapper.
Musical notation: 5 line staves; square notes.
Binding Note
Unbound sheets in a raw hide cover. Rebound in modern paper wrapper with leather ties.

Discovery Information

Subject
Nahuas—Mexico—Music
Nahuatl language—Texts
Choral music—Mexico
Indigenous Studies

Physical Characteristics

File Count
73

Institutional Information

Collection
Mesoamerican Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/cf8ab88a-3781-4afd-810a-399d265224f7/manifest