Chapter 023

Chapter 023

the divinity (udiosil) of God

TI 1.II.1.ii (on Divinity).
The second topic (ii) in the first section (1) of the second part (II) of the first volume (1) of the Theologia Indorum.
"Chapter 23: The [first section on the] second topic, this is the name of the Trinity and a clarification of it."

Domingo de Vico, O.P. (author)

Theologia Indorum, vol. I, fols. 30r-30v
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unpublished manuscript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. 31r-31v [numbered chapter 22] (Tz'utujil)
BnF Ms Amér 5, fols. 30r-30v (K'iche')
BnF Ms Amér 10, fols. 18r-18v (K'iche')
BnF Ms Amér 42, fols. 32v-33v (Kaqchikel)
BnF Ms Amér 56 [proemium-chapter 55 missing] (K'iche')
GGMM no. 178, pp. 56-57 (K'iche')
GGMM no. 179 [chapters 4-25 missing] (K'iche')
GGMM no. 227 [proemium-chapter 35 missing] (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)