Relacion de la provincia i tierra de la Vera Paz i de las cosas contenidas en ella como son montes, fuentes, animales, aves i plantas, i arboles, del numero de los pueblos i distancia de las yglesias i fundacion dellas, i de lo que cada uno tiene, i finalmente del numero de gente sus lenguas su policia i cristiandad desde el año de 1544 hasta este de 1574

Name:

Francisco, Prior of Viana; Gallego, Lucas; Cadena, Guillem; Gavarrette Escobar, Juan

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1872

Description:

19th-century copy of a description of the Guatemalan province of Verapaz written by three Dominican friars, Francisco, prior of Viana; Lucas Gallego; and Guillem Cadena. Includes information on topography, climate, flora, fauna, settlements, churches, and population, as well as the work of the Dominicans in the province between 1554 and 1574. To his copy, C. Hermann Berendt added excerpts from Juan Gavarrette Escobar's Apuntes para los Anales del antiquo reino de Guatemala (f. 5v-6r) and a map of the region around Lago de Izabal, here under the name Golfo Dolce, copied in 1878 from a 1680 manuscript of Fuentes y Guzman's Recordacion Florida at the Biblioteca de la Universidad, Guatemala (f. 7v). There are also corrections and annotations in the main text in red ink. 16 loose notes, presumably made in the preparation of the manuscript and previously stored in an envelope mounted on f. 6r, are now in mylar and filed with the manuscript.

Language:

Spanish; Castilian

Provenance:

Copied from a copy in the collection of E. G. Squier (1821-1888) made in 1857 by Buckingham Smith from a manuscript in v. 39 of the collection of Juan Bautista Muñoz at the Real Academia de la Historia in Madrid (f. 24v).; From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton.; Berendt, C. Hermann 1817-1878, former owner.; Brinton, Daniel G. 1837-1899, former owner.

Subject:

Dominicans -- Guatemala -- Early works to 1800; Dominicans; Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Early works to 1800; Indians of Central America

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

annotations; maps (documents); Manuscripts, Spanish; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

43 leaves : paper; 340 x 225 (250 x 162) mm bound to 340 x 227 mm

Geographic Subject:

Verapaz (Guatemala) -- Early works to 1800; Guatemala

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. gathering.; Title from caption title page (f. 7r).; This was the eighth of ten manuscripts and facsimiles formerly bound together, now disbound (Item 205-Item 214).; Foliation: Paper, 27 + 16 loose items; f. 9-24 have foliation 2-17 in ink, upper right recto; modern pencil foliation, lower right recto. References in this record are to the modern foliation.; Layout: Written in 30 long lines.; Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.; Decoration: Map with coastlines in blue ink and communities indicated by small houses (f. 7v).; Watermark: PIRIE'S Old Style.; Origin: Copied in New York in 1872.; Spanish.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 700

Collection:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection