Item Summary

Brief Christian lessons drawn from the lives of the saints and the New Testament, with explanations of Christian concepts (virtue, prudence, etc.). Foliated with same folio numbers on recto and verso.

Descriptive Information

Title
Theologia Indorum : manuscript, [1759].
Call Number
C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 177)
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/h128nh47c
Language
Mayan languages
Date Created
[1759].
Format
Manuscript
Extent
1 v. (140 leaves) : paper ; 22 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
Notes
Scribe: Written by Thomas Ossorio at San Sebastian, Lemoa [Guatemala] in a month and four days, ending Mar. 1, 1759.
Decoration: 2 pen-and-ink drawings, including Cross with Virgin and St. John (fol. 1 v), and Virgin and Child (fol. 113v). Also includes smaller pen-and-ink sketches of heads of angels (fols. 27r, 127v, 128r).
Binding Note
Parchment wrapper stiffened with paper pasteboard, some of which is extant, with unidentified text (17th c.?) in a Mesoamerican language, probably K'iche'.

Discovery Information

Subject
Christianity—Guatemala
Quiché language—Texts
Indigenous Studies

Physical Characteristics

File Count
321

Institutional Information

Collection
Mesoamerican Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b8be463f-e9c4-40a8-bb94-5f5630f5442b/manifest