Theologia Indorum : manuscript, [15--].

Author
Vico, Domingo de, 1485-1555 [Browse]
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Mayan languages
Description
1 v. (144 leaves) : paper ; 22 x 16 cm.

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Special Collections - Manuscripts C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 178) Browse related items Reading Room Request
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      Subject(s)
      Donor
      Former owner
      Getty AAT genre
      Contained in
      Robert Garrett collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s.
      Compiled/​Created
      [15--].
      Linking notes
      Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).
      Summary note
      Incomplete ms. beginning on p. 3, possibly in the hand of Domingo de Vico, containing Christian lessons drawn from the lives of the saints and the New Testament, with explanations of Christian concepts (virtue, prudence, etc.). Paper damaged with loss of text, with 19th-century pagination.
      Binding note
      Parchment wrapper.
      Language note
      Text in K'iche' and Latin.
      Script
      Written in a Humanistic cursive dating from the second half of the 16th century.
      Provenance
      Discovered in the town of Cunén; later acquired by William E. 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.
      Cite as
      Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 178, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
      Other format(s)
      Also available in an electronic version.
      Place name(s)
      Guatemala Cunén.
      Other title(s)
      Teologia Indorum
      In
      Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s
      OCLC
      1340466177
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