Item Summary

Copy of a Tzotzil dictionary. Date of the original manuscript is unknown.

Descriptive Information

Title
Diccionario grande de la lengua Tzotzil : manuscript, [19--].
Call Number
C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 253)
Identifier
https://library.princeton.edu/mssimages/garrett-gates%20mesoamerican/garrettgatesmeso253-f3r.jpg
Language
Mayan languages
Date Created
[19--].
Format
Manuscript
Extent
1 v. (176 leaves) : paper ; 34 x 22 cm.
Provenance
Manuscript copy made by order of Archbishop Francisco Orozco y Jimenez of Guadalajara (1864-1936), who during the years before the Carranza-Alvarado regime, had gathered all the manuscripts he could find through Chiapas, into the Episcopal library of San Cristóbal de las Casas (Chiapas, Mexico); he later gave this manuscript along with several others to Dr. Nicolás León, who sold them to Paul Wilkinson; later acquired by William Gates (purchase from Wilkinson); 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. William E. Gates later acquired the manuscript from Wilkinson.
Source Acquisition
Gift; Robert Garrett; 1949.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Binding Note
Paper covers.

Discovery Information

Subject
Tzotzil language—Terms and phrases
Tzotzil language—Dictionaries
Tzotzil language—Texts
Indigenous Studies

Physical Characteristics

File Count
360

Institutional Information

Collection
Mesoamerican Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/6cb076e2-3bd4-4e97-94db-2044b392796c/manifest