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One of the few books published in Guatemala on music, it outlined rules for his cathedral singers in the colonial capital of Santiago de Guatemala.

Creators: Pedro Cortés y Larraz; printer: Don Antonio Sanchez Cubillas

Date of Creation: 1772

Place of origin: Santiago de Guatemala (current day Antigua, Guatemala)

Physical measurements: 20 pages

Materials: Paper

Process by which it was made: Print

Current location: Archivo Histórico del Arquidiocesano de Guatemala

Further Reading

Alfred Lemmon, “Reglas y estatutos del coro de la Santa Metropolitana Iglesia de Santiago de Guatemala,” Mesoamérica: revista del Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica 11, no. 19-20 (1990): 299-314.

Ana María Martínez de Sánchez, “Fuentes de archivo para el estudio del derecho canónico indiano local,” Revista de estudios histórico-jurídicos, no. 30 (2008): 485-503.

Kate van Orden, Materialities: Books, Readers, and the Chanson in Sixteenth-Century Europe (Oxford University Press, 2015).

Information contributed by Diane Oliva.

A Maya stone sculpture dedicated by the ruler Yo’nal Ahk II.

Creators: Six Maya sculptors from Yokib

Date of Creation: c. 761 CE

Place of origin: Piedras Negras, Guatemala

Physical measurements: Height: 295 cm; Width: 85 cm; Depth: 40.64 cm

Materials: Limestone

Process by which it was made: Carving, painting

Current location: Penn Museum, University of Pennsylavnia

Further Reading

Clancy, Flora Simmons. The Monuments of Piedras Negras, an Ancient Maya City. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009.

Carranza, Luis E. Architecture as Revolution Episodes in the History of Modern Mexico. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010.

Martin, Simon. Ancient Maya Politics: A Political Anthropology of the Classic Period 150-900 CE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Miller, Mary Ellen and Megan E. O’Neil, Maya Art and Architecture, 2nd rev edn. London: Thames and Hudson, 2014.

O’Neil, Megan E. Engaging Ancient Maya Sculpture at Piedras Negras, Guatemala. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012.

Information contributed by Megan E. O’Neil.