Item Summary

Ms. dance-drama, of the Guatemala version of the Dance of the Conquest of Mexico. The text is unusual in that the Indians speak K'ich'e and the Spaniards speak Mayanized Spanish, both in Mayan semantic couplets. The plot deals with the coming of the Spaniards to Mexico and the defeat and conversion of the Indians. The title role of Zaqi Q'oxol or "White Demon" is played by an Indian who undertakes to represent paganism in the debate (the role is comic and licentious). Signed "escribano Cablido Diego de Leon," on p. [223]. Text incomplete.

Descriptive Information

Title
Zakicoxol : manuscript, [1800 or 1802 Sept. 20].
Call Number
C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 173)
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/3197xq559
Language
Mayan languages
Date Created
[1800 or 1802 Sept. 20].
Format
Manuscript
Extent
1 v. (48 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
Decoration: contains some primative pen-and-ink and pencil sketches on pp. 222, [3], and [5].
Binding Note
Parchment wrapper, with evidence of leather end ties.

Discovery Information

Subject
Quiché drama
Quiché dance
Quiché Indians—History—Drama
Quiché calendar
Quiché language—Texts
Mexico—History—Conquest, 1519-1540—Drama
Indigenous Studies

Physical Characteristics

File Count
48

Institutional Information

Collection
Mesoamerican Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f630fb5e-5201-4633-9fa1-d3ab43d926e0/manifest