Item Summary

Contains texts written in several unidentified hands, all of the 16th century, one of these (of 30 pages) being in K'iche'. A notation on the inside of the cover says "Tzutuhil," The greater part of the volume is clearly Kaqchikel, but the first section (fols. 71-100), different in writing entirely, with red initial letters running all through the text, uses the specifice Tzutuhil words "ca-tte, ca-tte," which belong to Atitlan, the capital of the old Tzutuhil kingdom. Tzutuhil is much closer to Kaqchikel than is K'iche', in spite of its being almost surrounded by K'iche'-speaking towns. There are only two other known Tzutuhil mss. (both in the Bibliothèque nationale de France). It is to be noted that the texts in this volume do not use the special characters found in all Kaqchikel and K'iche' texts after about the middle or late 16th century, until the languages, and learning, became so run down that their use ceased.

Descriptive Information

Title
Theologia Indorum : manuscript, [15--].
Call Number
C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 227)
Identifier
https://library.princeton.edu/mssimages/Garrett-Gates%20Mesoamerican/garrettgatesmeso227-f72r.jpg
Language
Mayan languages
Date Created
[15--].
Format
Manuscript
Extent
1 v. (232 leaves) : paper ; 21 x 16 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
Binding Note
Leather (unidentified).

Discovery Information

Subject
Christianity—Guatemala
Quiché language—Texts
Cakchikel language—Texts
Tzutuhil language—Texts
Quiché Indians—Religion
Cakchikel Indians—Religion
Tzutuhil Indians—Religion
Indigenous Studies

Physical Characteristics

File Count
466

Institutional Information

Collection
Mesoamerican Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/595683a5-7398-441d-a901-6cd98eaede81/manifest