Chapter 055

Chapter 055 manuscript

Dublin Core

Title

Chapter 055

Subject

Abraham and Melchizedek

Description

TI 1.VI.xx.a (on Abraham, Melchizedek).
The first section (a) of the twentieth topic (xx) in the sixth part (VI) of the first volume (1) of the Theologia Indorum.
"Chapter 55: The fifty-fifth chapter, a telling about the twentieth topic, which is the name of Abraham, and on Melchizedek."
(Note: No Chapters 53 and 54)

Creator

Domingo de Vico, O.P. (author)

Source

Theologia Indorum, vol. I, fols. 78v-80r
American Philosophical Society Mss.497.4.Ua13

Publisher

unpublished manuscript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

Date

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

Contributor

Juan Goméz (copyist)

Rights

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

Format

2 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)

Language

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

Type

Mayanized Christian theology (doctrinal, biblical, summa)

Citation

Domingo de Vico, O.P. (author), “Chapter 055,” Theologia Indorum, accessed September 18, 2024, https://theologia-indorum.princeton.edu/items/show/101.