Abstract

CIVALLERO, Edgardo. ISSUE #20: YERBA MATE IN EL QUITO COLONIAL. Rev. Fuent. Cong. [online]. 2020, vol.14, n.64, pp. 56-59. ISSN 1997-4485.

Issue #20 of the periodical column "Palabras ancladas" presents the story of a Mesoamerican colonial manuscript written in Kaqchikel, currently preserved in the National Library of France. In addition to providing a historical context for the manuscript and a brief description of its contents, this text tells the avatars that carried the Kaqchikel document from the Guatemalan highlands to the French bibliographic collection.

Keywords : Manuscript; Guatemala; Kaqchikel; Indigenous; Mesoamerica; Colonial America.