Item Summary

Contains a translation of the "Proclama a los habitantes de Ultramar," issued by the Cadiz Junta on Aug. 30, 1812, calling for help against the "murderous tyrant Napoleon." The present translation contains a revised Spanish version.

Descriptive Information

Title
Proclama en lengua Sotzil : manuscript, [19--].
Call Number
C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 254)
Identifier
https://library.princeton.edu/mssimages/garrett-gates%20mesoamerican/garrettgatesmeso254-p1.jpg
Language
Mayan languages
Date Created
[19--].
Format
Manuscript
Extent
1 v. (52 leaves) : paper ; 18 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; William Gates later acquired the manuscript 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.
Source Acquisition
Gift; Robert Garrett; 1949.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Binding Note
Paper covers.

Discovery Information

Subject
Tzotzil language—Texts
Spain—History—Napoleonic Conquest, 1808-1813
Indigenous Studies

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Mesoamerican Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e75f3cf8-3d4d-4cf3-a900-a246cb7931d7/manifest