Chapter 000 Proemium

Chapter 000 Proemium

introduction to volume one

TI 1 (proemium).
The introduction to the first volume (1) of the Theologia Indorum.

Domingo de Vico, O.P. (author)

Theologia Indorum, vol. I, fols. 1r-2r
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unpublished manuscript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. 1r-2r (Tz'utujil)
BnF Ms Amér 5, fols. 1r-2r (K'iche')
BnF Ms Amér 10, fols. 1r-1v (K'iche')
BnF Ms Amér 42, fols. 1r-2r (Kaqchikel)
BnF Ms Amér 56 [proemium-chapter 55 missing] (K'iche')
GGMM no. 178, p. 3 [incomplete, pages 1-2 missing] (K'iche')
GGMM no. 179 [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')

1.5 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)

Guatemala, c.1551-February 11, 1553