Author: Ruano, Suarez

Title: Vocabularios de los idiomas Chiorti y Pocomane

Date: 1892

Language(s): Chorti and Pokomam

SCOPE AND CONTENTS

Copy of a dictionary of Pokomam (as spoken in Jilotepeque) and Chorti (as spoken in Chiquimula) with introductory notes, and a little grammar. Many leaves are blank, including the first 27.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Material and Layout: Paper; 327 leaves; 31 x 26 cm.

Binding: Quarter leather and cloth

PROVENANCE

Early provenance unknown; previously owned by William Gates; sold to Robert Garrett (purchased from William Gates in 1930); deposited by Garrett at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton in 1942; removed from the Institute in 1949, at Garrett's request, and donated to the Princeton University Library.

Title: Arte en lengua Cholti

Date: 1900s

Language(s): Chorti and Pokomam

SCOPE AND CONTENTS

Contains a vocabulary of 4000 words, a Grammar, and a Doctrina. This is a facsimile copy made by William E. Gates of the original manuscript, which was written at San Lucas de Chol, in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala in 1685. It was compiled from the "Libre Grande" of fray Franco. Moran, the first missionary to settle among the Lacandones and Choles, or Putunes. The second part of the manuscript, the Vocabulary, was finished in 1695 at Dolores, among the Lacandones.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Material and Layout: Paper; 34 leaves; 20 x 14 cm.

Binding: Half morocco

PROVENANCE

Early provenance unknown; previously owned by William Gates; sold to Robert Garrett (purchased from William Gates in 1930); deposited by Garrett at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton in 1942; removed from the Institute in 1949, at Garrett's request, and donated to the Princeton University Library.

Title: Diccionario grande de la lengua Tzotzil

Date: 1900s

Language(s): Tzotzil

SCOPE AND CONTENTS

Copy of a Tzotzil dictionary. Date of the original manuscript is unknown

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Material and Layout: Paper; 176 leaves; 35 x 23 cm.

Binding: Paper covers

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), who deposited it at at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton in 1942. The manuscript was removed from the Institute in 1949, at Garrett's request, and donated to the Princeton University Library.

Title: Proclama en lengua Sotzil

Date: 1900s

Language(s): Tzotzil and Spanish on opposite pages

SCOPE AND CONTENTS

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.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Material and Layout: Paper; 52 leaves; 18 x 22 cm.

Binding: Paper covers

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. Gates sold the manuscript to Robert Garrett in 1930. Garrett deposited the manuscript at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton in 1942 The item removed from the Institute in 1949, at Garrett's request, and donated to the Princeton University Library.

Author: Toro, Franco. de

Title: Sermones en lengua Tzoque

Date: 1900s

Language(s): Zoque

SCOPE AND CONTENTS

Manuscript copy of a collection of sermons by one fray Franco. de Toro

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Material and Layout: Paper; 178 leaves; 34 x 22 cm.

Binding: Cardboard covers

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). There is an autograph presentation from Orozco y Jimenez to Dr. Nicolás León, dated Oct. 15, 1907 on front flyleaf. León sold the manuscript to Paul Wilkinson. William Gates later acquired the manuscript from Wilkinson. Gates sold the manuscript to Robert Garrett in 1930. Garrett deposited the manuscript at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton in 1942 The item removed from the Institute in 1949, at Garrett's request, and donated to the Princeton University Library.

Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 256

Author: Toro, Franco de

Title: Sermones en lengua Tzoque

Date: 1900s

Language(s): Zoque

SCOPE AND CONTENTS

Manuscript copy made by Dr. Nicolás León, from a manuscript in the Icazbalceta Collection. This copy is accompanied by four others, made by León as follows: Chanabal "Doctrina" (2 p.); Zapaluta, or properly, Tzeltal "Confessionario" (2 p.); "Doctrina cristiana en chiapaneco"; Maya "Vocabulary" (4 p.).

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Material and Layout: Paper; 20 leaves; 31 x 22 cm.

Binding: Cardboard covers

PROVENANCE

Manuscript copy made by Dr. Nicolás León. Later acquired by William Gates, probably from Dr. Nicolás León. Gates sold the manuscript to Robert Garrett in 1930. Garrett deposited the manuscript at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton in 1942 The item removed from the Institute in 1949, at Garrett's request, and donated to the Princeton University Library.

Title: Choral Music Miscellany

Date: 1635

Language(s): Spanish, Latin and Nahuatl

SCOPE AND CONTENTS

Choral settings of sacred texts in Nahuatl, Latin, and Spanish, including "Requiem eternam dona eis domine...," "Victoria victoria aqui canvencido [convencido]," and "Dominus dixit ad me filius meus est..." One note in corrupt Spanish states the manuscript was written by the Maestro Tomas Pascual, 22 December 1635 (fol. 5r). Fol. 21v. appears to be dated 30 August 1634; fol. 11r. gives the year 1622.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Material and Layout: Paper; 35 leaves; 31 x 22 cm.

Binding: Unbound sheets in a raw hide cover. Rebound in modern paper wrapper with leather ties.

PROVENANCE

Early provenance unknown; previously owned by William Gates; sold to Robert Garrett (purchased from William Gates in 1930); deposited by Garrett at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton in 1942; removed from the Institute in 1949, at Garrett's request, and donated to the Princeton University Library.

Title: Mapa de Cuauhtlantzinco

Date: ca. 1855

Language: Nahuatl

SCOPE AND CONTENTS

The manuscript is a partial copy of the original "Mapa de Cuauhtlantzinco," which details the reception by Hernan Cortes by a native Mexican chieftan on his way towards the Conquest of the capital, Mexico. Several of the sheets are portraits of native chiefs, with their names. Text on a number of pictures in Nahuatl. The original "mapa" had two parts: 1) a panel containing 27 scenes and 29 numbered Nahuatl texts arranged in three horizontal rows and 2) a smaller panel containing 17 scenes and 12 numbers but without Nahuatl texts. This manuscript is a watercolor copy of the smaller panel and its 17 scenes are mounted in the same order and bear the same numbers (blank, 30, 23, 21, blank, 11, 7, 33, 6, blank, blank, 31, 2, blank, 32, 9, 24). Eleven or 13 of the scenes on the smaller panel are copies or duplicates of scenes on the larger panel. The four large heads designated by the numbers 30-33, however, are not duplicated on the larger panel.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Material and Layout: 7 sheets of watercolor drawings on paper (ca. 419 x 254 mm.), mounted on a sheet of cloth in two horizontal rows of eight each with the final sheet sideways at the right end, forming a panel (3887 x 1041 mm.)

PROVENANCE

Copy of the original which was known to have existed in a small town in Mexico, from immediately after the Conquest but later damaged by fire and since disappeared entirely. According to Gates the original was sent to Mexico City where the present copy was made, and then returned, after which the fire occurred. Previously part of the Jose Fernando Ramirez Collection (Bibliotheca Mexicana, 1880: no. 540). It was sent to Europe with the rest of the Mexican manuscripts and books of Ramirez and auctioned in Paris. It was purchased by Quaritch and is listed in two catalogs issued by that dealer (Quatritch, 1880: no 176; Quaritch, 1885: no. 29045). This copy was acquired by Gates. It was not included in the manuscripts deposited by Robert Garrett in the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in 1942 but was brought by him to the Princeton University Library in 1949.

Title: Lienzo Córdova-Castellanos

Date: 1900-12

Language(s): Zapotec

SCOPE AND CONTENTS

A tracing (or copy) of a 16th-century Mixtec Indian lienzo from San Esteban Atlatlauhca, Oaxaca. Around the border are Mixtec place glyphs that presumably represent the boundaries of the jurisdiction of the town. Calendrical dates on the left, at the top, and near the center refer to mythological or historical events. The tracing is drawn in ink. The only color that appears is blue which appears in four places to color the hieroglyphic sign for water (at the center of the top and bottom rows and twice along the left edge).

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Material and Layout: Light-blue glazed linen tracing cloth; 1200 x 1360 mm.

PROVENANCE

The tracing was probably made for Dr. Nicolás León at an unknown date; purchased by William Gates from Paul Wilkinson in 1912; sold to Robert Garrett (purchased from William Gates in 1930); deposited by Garrett at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton in 1942; removed from the Institute in 1949, at Garrett's request, and donated to the Princeton University Library.

Author: Boucara, A.

Title: Diccionario y dialogos Castellano y Chinanteca

Date: Apr. 2, 1860

Language(s): Chinantec

SCOPE AND CONTENTS

Contains phrases and vocabulary, written by a Frenchman, A. Boucara. Some blank leaves.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Material and Layout: Paper; 40 leaves; 18 x 12 cm.

Binding: Half green levant

PROVENANCE

Early provenance unknown; previously owned by William Gates; sold to Robert Garrett (purchased from William Gates in 1930); deposited by Garrett at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton in 1942; removed from the Institute in 1949, at Garrett's request, and donated to the Princeton University Library.