Item Summary

Unidentified Christian devotional texts, possibly relating in part to the Passion. According to a note on p. 97, this is a manuscript copy extracted from an older manuscript by one Juan Cipriano (also spelled "Cypriano" and "Sipriano"), Maestro de Coro at command of God and the Padre Cura Don Andres Henriquez, on March 26, 1803. Paper damaged with loss of text.

Descriptive Information

Title
Discursos antiquos : manuscript, [1803].
Call Number
C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 181)
Identifier
https://library.princeton.edu/mssimages/garrett-gates%20mesoamerican/garrettgatesmeso181-p1.jpg
Language
Mayan languages
Date Created
[1803].
Format
Manuscript
Extent
1 v. (40 leaves) : paper ; 20 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
Notes
Title from William Gates inventory list.
Decoration: 2 full-page drawings in brown and red ink, one drawing is of the Cross (both badly damaged by acidity of the iron-gall ink).
Binding Note
Parchment wrapper with remnants of leather end ties.

Discovery Information

Subject
Quiché language—Texts
Indigenous Studies

Physical Characteristics

File Count
87

Institutional Information

Collection
Mesoamerican Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/df712080-a0ba-4cbc-8233-69f724924143/manifest