Chapter 056

Chapter 056

Sodom and Gomorrah; Abiram and Dathan

TI 1.VI.xx.b (on Sodom, Gomorrah, Abiram, Dathan).
The second section (b) of the twentieth topic (xx) in the sixth part (VI) of the first volume (1) of the Theologia Indorum.
"Chapter 56: The fifty-sixth chapter, on the loss and destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah seen by Abraham, Abiram, and Dathan, and the names of four clans."

Domingo de Vico, O.P. (author)

Theologia Indorum, vol. I, fols. 80r-82r
American Philosophical Society Mss.497.4.Ua13

unpublished manuscript
gift of Mariano Gálvez, Governor of Guatemala
from the Academia de Ciencias de Guatemala to the APS in 1836

text: February 11, 1553
composition: c.1551-1553
manuscript copy: September 16, 1605

Juan Goméz (copyist)

American Philosophical Society
104 South Fifth Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106
USA

BnF Ms Amér 4, fols. 81r-83r (Tz'utujil)
BnF Ms Amér 5, fols. 80r-82r (K'iche')
BnF Ms Amér 10, fols. 44r-45r [numbered as chapter 54] (K'iche')
BnF Ms Amér 42, fols. 82v-84v (Kaqchikel)
BnF Ms Amér 56, fols. 19r-20r (K'iche')
GGMM no. 178, pp. 136-140 (K'iche')
GGMM no. 179 [chapters 43-56 missing]
(K'iche') GGMM no. 227 [chapters 56-105 missing] (Kaqchikel)
Penn Ms 700, 78 [absent] (Q'eqchi')
Tozzer Ms C.A.8 Q40, n.a. (K'iche')

2.5 leaves
bound manuscript (185 leaves in total), paper, 21.5 x 15.3 cm
Humanistic cursive script, black ink (section titles in red ink)
Latin characters plus two modified from Arabic (ghayn, qaf)

K'iche' (Maya; previously Quiché, K'iché, 4iche)
some loanwords from Latin and Castilian

Mayanized Christian theology (doctrinal, biblical, summa)