Songs of Faith and Devotion: Discovery of the K'iche' Coplas in Kislak ms. 1015
submitted by Marvin's Underground Evening Lectures
on 10/06/18
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Kislak Fellow Frauke Sachse discussed Manuscript 1015 in the Library's Jay I. Kislak Collection. This small leather-bound handbook, known as the "K'iche' Coplas," was compiled from different types of texts in several Highland Mayan languages and probably served as a vademecum to a parish priest. For transcript and more information, visit www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7833
