Popol vuh (Record no. 66801)
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| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Edition number | 23 |
| Classification number | 299.784 REC |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Recions , Adrian |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Popol vuh |
| Remainder of title | : the sacred book of the ancient Quiche' Maya |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | / Adrien Recino |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Norman |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | : University of Oklahoma Press , |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | ,1991 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 267 p, |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | his is the first complete version in English of the "Book of the People" of the Quiche Maya, the most powerful nation of the Guatemalan highlands in pre-Conquest times and a branch of the ancient Maya, whose remarkable civilization in pre-Columbian America is in many ways comparable to the ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean. Generally regarded as America's oldest book, the "Popol Vuh, "in fact, corresponds to our Christian Bible, and it is, moreover, the most important of the five pieces of the great library treasures of the Maya that survived the Spanish Conquest.<br/><br/>The "Popol Vuh "was first transcribed in the Quiche language, -but in Latin characters, in the middle of the sixteenth century, by some unknown but highly literate Quiche Maya Indian-probably from the oral traditions of his people. This now lost manuscript was copied at the end of the seventeenth century by Father Francisco Ximenez, then parish priest of the village of Santo Tomas Chichicastenango in the highlands of Guatemala, today the most celebrated and best-known Indian town in all of Central America.<br/><br/>The mythology, traditions, cosmogony, and history of the Quiche Maya, including the chronology of their kings down to 1550, are related in simple yet literary style by the Indian chronicler. And Adrian Recinos has made a valuable contribution to the understanding and enjoyment of the document through his thorough going introduction and his identification of places and people in the footnotes. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Religion |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Spanish poetry |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | History and criticism. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type | Public note |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Not For Loan | SNU LIBRARY | SNU LIBRARY | 19/12/2025 | 299.784 REC | G6950 | 19/12/2025 | 19/12/2025 | Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection | Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection |
