Chapter 052

Chapter 052

changing of language; praying to che' ab'aj

TI 1.VI.xix.b (on Babel).
The second section (b) of the nineteenth topic (xix) in the sixth part (VI) of the first volume (1) of the Theologia Indorum.
"Chapter 52: A section on the changing of language and also the origins of devotion by people toward effigies of 'stone and sticks.'"
(Note: No Chapters 53 and 54)

Domingo de Vico, O.P. (author)

Theologia Indorum, vol. I, fols. 76v-78v
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unpublished manuscript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. 77r-79v (Tz'utujil)
BnF Ms Amér 5, fols. 76v-78v (K'iche')
BnF Ms Amér 10, fols. 42r-43r (K'iche')
BnF Ms Amér 42, fols. 79r-81r (Kaqchikel)
BnF Ms Amér 56 [proemium-chapter 55 missing] (K'iche')
GGMM no. 178, pp. 129-133 (K'iche')
GGMM no. 179 [chapters 43-56 missing] (K'iche')
GGMM no. 227, fol. 97v-99v [numbered as chapter 53] (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)