Chapter 043

Chapter 043

closing off of the sky and Earthly Paradise

TI 1.V.13.vii (on Sin).
The seventh topic (vii) in the thirteenth section (13) of the fifth part (V) of the first volume (1) of the Theologia Indorum.
"Chapter 43: The thirteenth section, this is about the closing of the doors to the sky and the 'earthly paradise.'"

Domingo de Vico, O.P. (author)

Theologia Indorum, vol. I, fols. 62v-63r
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unpublished manuscript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. 62r-63r (Tz'utujil)
BnF Ms Amér 5, fols. 62v-63r (K'iche')
BnF Ms Amér 10, fols. 35r-35v (K'iche')
BnF Ms Amér 42, fols. 65v-66v (Kaqchikel)
BnF Ms Amér 56 [proemium-chapter 55 missing] (K'iche')
GGMM no. 178, pp. 102-104 (K'iche')
GGMM no. 179 [chapters 43-56 missing] (K'iche')
GGMM no. 227, fols. 82v-83v [numbered as chapter 44] (Kaqchikel)
Penn Ms 700, 78 [absent] (Q'eqchi')
Tozzer Ms C.A.8 Q40, n.a. (K'iche')

1 leaf
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)