Chapter 082

Chapter 082

Israel defeats Jericho

TI 1.VI.xxiv.b (on Joshua).
The second section (b) of the twenty-fourth topic (xxiv) in the sixth part (VI) of the first volume (1) of the Theologia Indorum.
"Chapter 82: The eighty-second chapter, on the fall of Jericho due to the Israelites."

Domingo de Vico, O.P. (author)

Theologia Indorum, vol. I, fols. 126v-128v
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unpublished manuscript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. 126v-128v (Tz'utujil)
BnF Ms Amér 5, fols. 126v-128v (K'iche')
BnF Ms Amér 10, fols. 68r-69r [numbered as chapter 80] (K'iche')
BnF Ms Amér 42, fols. 125r-127r (Kaqchikel)
BnF Ms Amér 56 [chapters 75-105 missing] (K'iche')
GGMM no. 178, pp. 195-198 (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')

2.5 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)