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Central America -- Languages -- History -- Sources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:

William Gates collection of Nahuatl codices, picture manuscripts, and historical texts, approximately 1521-1940

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 279 Series 9 Sub-Series 16 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents

Contains photocopies and manuscripts from Gates' collection of codices, picture manuscripts, and historical texts in the Nahuatl language.

Dates: approximately 1521-1940
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / William Gates papers / William Gates collection of texts in native languages / William Gates collection of Nahuatl texts

William Gates collection of Nahuatl texts, 1521-1940

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 279 Series 9 Sub-Series 16
Scope and Contents

Contains photocopies, typescripts, and manuscripts from Gates' collection of texts in the Nahuatl language.

Dates: 1521-1940
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / William Gates papers / William Gates collection of texts in native languages

William Gates collection of Opata historical texts, 1521-1940

 Sub-Series — Box 96: Series 9 [Barcode: 31197232492519], Folder: 10
Identifier: MSS 279 Series 9 Sub-Series 17 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents

Contains photocopies, typescripts, and manuscripts from Gates' collection of historical texts in the Opata language.

Dates: 1521-1940
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / William Gates papers / William Gates collection of texts in native languages / William Gates collection of Opata texts

William Gates collection of Opata texts, 1521-1940

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 279 Series 9 Sub-Series 17
Scope and Contents

Contains photocopies, typescripts, and manuscripts from Gates' collection of texts in the Opata language.

Dates: 1521-1940
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / William Gates papers / William Gates collection of texts in native languages

William Gates collection of Opata vocabularies, 1702-1775

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 279 Series 9 Sub-Series 17 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents

Contains discourses and a book that have vocabularies in Opata.

Dates: 1702-1775
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / William Gates papers / William Gates collection of texts in native languages / William Gates collection of Opata texts

William Gates collection of Otomí texts, 1507-1940

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 279 Series 9 Sub-Series 18
Scope and Contents

Contains photocopies from Gates' collection of texts in the Otomí language.

Dates: 1507-1940
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / William Gates papers / William Gates collection of texts in native languages

William Gates collection of Pocomam texts, 1720

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 279 Series 9 Sub-Series 19
Scope and Contents

Contains a photocopy and a typescript from Gates' collection of texts in the Pocomam language.

Dates: 1720
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / William Gates papers / William Gates collection of texts in native languages

William Gates collection of Pocomchi texts, 1521-1940

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 279 Series 9 Sub-Series 20
Scope and Contents

Contains photocopies and typescripts from Gates' collection of texts in Pocomchí.

Dates: 1521-1940
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / William Gates papers / William Gates collection of texts in native languages

William Gates collection of Spanish texts, 1521-1940

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 279 Series 9 Sub-Series 22
Scope and Contents

Contains photocopies and a typescript from Gates' collection of texts in the Spanish language.

Dates: 1521-1940
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / William Gates papers / William Gates collection of texts in native languages

William Gates collection of Tarascan texts, 1521-1940

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 279 Series 9 Sub-Series 23
Scope and Contents

Contains photocopies of Christian-related texts from Gates' collection of Tarascan texts.

Dates: 1521-1940
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / William Gates papers / William Gates collection of texts in native languages

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