Item Summary

Ms. copy of the by-laws for the Cofradía de la Santa Vera Cruz in Totonicapán, Guatemala. Inscriptions by Balthazar Cobocah, Chupah, 6 May 1776 (p. 17) and May 1777 (p. 52).

Descriptive Information

Title
Ordínanzas de la confradía de Santa Vera Cruz en Totonicapán : manuscript, [17--].
Call Number
C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 104)
Identifier
https://library.princeton.edu/mssimages/garrett-gates%20mesoamerican/garrettgatesmeso104-f1r.jpg
Language
Mayan languages
Date Created
[17--].
Format
Manuscript
Extent
1 v. (26 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
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Incipit: En el nombre de Dios Padre y del hijo y del espiritu santo...
Binding Note
Original vellum cover, with leather end ties.

Discovery Information

Subject
Cofradía de la Santa Vera Cruz (Totonicapán, Guatemala)—By-laws
Cofradías (Latin America)
Confraternities—Guatemala—Totonicapán
Quiché Indians—Religion
Quiché language—Texts
Indigenous peoples of Central America—Guatemala—History—Sources
Totonicapán (Guatemala)—Religion
Indigenous Studies

Physical Characteristics

File Count
56

Institutional Information

Collection
Mesoamerican Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ce9780a8-99ef-43e2-b7d4-9aa3d1cb23e1/manifest