Chapter 104

Chapter 104

Mattithiah and other names

TI 1.VI.xxx (on Mattithiah).
The thirtieth name (xxx) in the sixth part (VI) of the first volume (1) of the Theologia Indorum.

Domingo de Vico, O.P. (author)

Theologia Indorum, vol. I, fols. 174v-177v
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unpublished manuscript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. 176r-180r (Tz'utujil)
BnF Ms Amér 5, fols. 174v-177v (K'iche')
BnF Ms Amér 10, fols. 94v-96v [numbered as chapter 101] (K'iche')
BnF Ms Amér 42, fols. 175r-178v [fol. 178v is a distinct ending] (Kaqchikel)
BnF Ms Amér 56 [chapters 75-105 missing] (K'iche')
GGMM no. 178, pp. 266-271 (K'iche')
GGMM no. 179 [chapters 61-105 missing] (K'iche')
GGMM no. 227 [chapters 56-105 missing] (Kaqchikel)
Penn Ms 700, 78 [absent] (Q'eqchi')
Tozzer Ms C.A.8 Q40, n.a. (K'iche')

3.5 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)