the back cover

the back cover

back cover

leather binding, back

Domingo de Vico, O.P. (author)

Theologia Indorum, vol. I
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unpublished manuscript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 (Tz'utujil), Paris, France
BnF Ms Amér 5 (K'iche'), Paris, France
BnF Ms Amér 10 (K'iche'), Paris, France
BnF Ms Amér 42 (Kaqchikel), Paris, France
BnF Ms Amér 56 (K'iche'), Paris, France
GGMM no. 178 (K'iche'), Princeton University
GGMM no. 179 (K'iche'), Princeton University
GGMM no. 227 (Kaqchikel), Princeton University
Penn Ms 700, 78 (Q'eqchi'), University of Pennsylvania
Tozzer Ms C.A.8 Q40 (K'iche'), Harvard University

bound manuscript of 185 leaves in total, paper, 22 x 13 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)