Chapter 001

Chapter 001 manuscript

Dublin Core

Title

Chapter 001

Subject

God as the "Framer and Former" (Tz'aqol B'itol)

Description

TI 1.I.1.i (on God's attributes).
The first topic (i) in the first section (1) of the first part (I) of the first volume (1) of the Theologia Indorum.
"Chapter 1: This is the [first section on] first beloved topic, God."

Creator

Domingo de Vico, O.P. (author)

Source

Theologia Indorum, vol. I, fols. 2r-3r
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unpublished manuscript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

Relation

BnF Ms Amér 4, fols. 2r-3v (Tz'utujil)
BnF Ms Amér 5, fols. 2r-3r (K'iche')
BnF Ms Amér 10, fols. 1v-2v (K'iche')
BnF Ms Amér 42, fols. 2r-3v (Kaqchikel)
BnF Ms Amér 56 [proemium-chapter 55 missing] (K'iche')
GGMM no. 178, pp. 3-5 (K'iche')
GGMM no. 179, fol. 2r [incomplete] (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')

Format

1.5 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)

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 001,” Theologia Indorum, accessed December 2, 2024, https://theologia-indorum.princeton.edu/items/show/153.