Manuscrito en lengua sotzil / sin nombre del autor, encontrado en la Parroquia de Comitán (Chiapas), de los PP. Predicadores ; mandado copiar fielmente por el Ilmo. Sr. Dr. Don Francisco Orozco y Jiménez, Obispo de Chiapas, 1906

Item — Box: 101, Folder: 8

Identifier: MSS 279 Series 9 Sub-Series 25

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Dates

1906

Language of Materials

Tzotzil and Spanish.

Conditions Governing Access

Open for public research.

Conditions Governing Use

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from William Gates papers must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Board of Curators.

Extent

50 p.

Additional Description

General

An introductory note reads: "This transcript, together with two others, the large and important Sotzil dictionary, and the Zoque Sermones, was presented by Orozco y Jiménez to Dr. Nicolás León, who later sold them to Paul Wilkinson, from whose (second) sale I bought them.

"The Bishop's palace was completely looted by the Carranza-Alvarado forces, the brutal leader of which I later encountered as Governor in Oaxaca when I passed through there in 1918. After the looting above, i.e. in the Spring of 1915, my agent F.J. Smith, was given leave to enter the former library and 'help himself.' He reported 'nothing left.'"