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Box 57

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Contains 9 Results:

Arte de la lengua Utalteca ó Kiché, vulgarmente llamado el Arte de Totonicapan / compuesto por el Rdo. Padre Fray Marcos Martinez de la Orden de Predicadores, 1575

 Item — Box: 57, Folder: 6
Identifier: MSS 279 Series 8 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 22
Scope and Contents

Includes a grammar (47 leaves), analysis of words (10 leaves), and a catechism (6 leaves). Brasseur de Bourbourg acquired the manuscript from a Belgian engineer named Van de Gehuchte, who obtained it from the parish archives at Totonicapan. It apparently served as a model for the grammar of Ximenez and the Cakchiquel grammar of Flores.

Dates: 1575