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 "corpus": "popol-vuh",
 "seat": "EA-CORPORA-21/02",
 "title": "Popol Vuh in K'iche' — the Ximénez Manuscript (Newberry Library, Ayer MS 1515, World Digital Library) and Brasseur de Bourbourg's First Edition of the K'iche' Text (1861)",
 "edition": "Popol Vuh: transcription in K'iche' and translation into Spanish by Francisco Ximénez (Chichicastenango, c. 1701–03), Newberry Library, Ayer MS 1515, 56 + 6 folios — the K'iche' and the Spanish in facing columns; as published by the World Digital Library (LoC item 2021668226, wdl_19995); Brasseur de Bourbourg, Popol Vuh: le livre sacré et les mythes de l'antiquité américaine, avec les livres héroïques et historiques des Quichés; ouvrage original des indigènes de Guatémala, texte quiché et traduction française en regard (Paris: Durand, 1861)",
 "language": "quc (K'iche'), with Spanish and French",
 "license": {
  "payload": "Public domain: the K'iche' text was set down in the Latin alphabet in the sixteenth century; Francisco Ximénez's transcription and Spanish translation (c. 1701–03) survives in the Newberry Library, Ayer MS 1515. The manuscript as digitized for the World Digital Library: Library of Congress, World Digital Library collection (the Library states it is unaware of any copyright or other restrictions; credit line: [Original Source citation], World Digital Library). Brasseur de Bourbourg's Popol Vuh (Paris: Durand, 1861), the first edition of the K'iche' text, is public domain; Internet Archive scan.",
  "record": "CC-BY-4.0 applies to this seat record only."
 },
 "fetched": "2026-10-23",
 "origin": {
  "items": [
   {
    "source": "Library of Congress (World Digital Library)",
    "url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/gdc/gdcwdl/wd/l_/19/99/5/wdl_19995/wdl_19995.pdf"
   },
   {
    "source": "Internet Archive",
    "identifier": "popolvuhlelivres00bras",
    "url": "https://archive.org/details/popolvuhlelivres00bras",
    "files": [
     "popolvuhlelivres00bras.pdf",
     "popolvuhlelivres00bras_djvu.txt"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "fetched": "2026-10-23",
  "transport": "in-session fetch (Transport D); No-Double-Draw"
 },
 "works": {
  "count": 2,
  "units": "one text file per work",
  "list": [
   {
    "slug": "popol-vuh-ximenez-ms",
    "work": "Popol Vuh: transcription in K'iche' and translation into Spanish by Francisco Ximénez (Chichicastenango, c. 1701–03), Newberry Library, Ayer MS 1515, 56 + 6 folios — the K'iche' and the Spanish in facing columns; as published by the World Digital Library (LoC item 2021668226, wdl_19995)",
    "text": null,
    "originals": [
     "original/loc/wdl_19995.pdf"
    ],
    "class": "manuscript"
   },
   {
    "slug": "popol-vuh-brasseur-1861",
    "work": "Brasseur de Bourbourg, Popol Vuh: le livre sacré et les mythes de l'antiquité américaine, avec les livres héroïques et historiques des Quichés; ouvrage original des indigènes de Guatémala, texte quiché et traduction française en regard (Paris: Durand, 1861)",
    "text": "text/popol-vuh-brasseur-1861.ocr.txt",
    "originals": [
     "original/popolvuhlelivres00bras/popolvuhlelivres00bras.pdf",
     "original/popolvuhlelivres00bras/popolvuhlelivres00bras_djvu.txt"
    ],
    "class": "first edition of the K'iche' text",
    "lines": 36454
   }
  ]
 },
 "normalization": "Files as fetched. Internet Archive OCR text layers as fetched, uncorrected (text/<slug>.ocr.txt); the scan under original/ is the witness. Library of Congress and FAMSI PDFs are image files without a text layer: the page is the only reading.",
 "scope": "The Popol Vuh in its one surviving witness, Ximénez's manuscript, and in the first printed edition of its K'iche' text. Ximénez's Spanish alone (Scherzer, Vienna, 1857) is a translation and is not seated. Modern editions (Christenson, Colop, Tedlock, Recinos) are in copyright and are not seated.",
 "verified_loci": [
  "Brasseur 1861, title page — 'TEXTE QUICHE ET TRADUCTION FRANÇAISE EN REGARD' (the Ximénez manuscript is an image without a text layer)"
 ],
 "loci_not_found": [],
 "lines_total": 36454,
 "why_seated": "The K'iche' book of the council: the creation, the failed peoples of mud and wood, the Hero Twins in Xibalba, and the lineages of the K'iche' lords. A book whose preamble says it is written again because the original can no longer be seen: the archive's line on books that survive as their own transmission meets it there.",
 "spine": "Popol Vuh",
 "ruling": "Lee Sharks, 2026-10-23: \"detour for an ea-corpora searing. lets see. whats available of mayan texts? and then i dont think we have much or any deteurocanonical second temple lit - all those apocalypses. and what about the ethiopian canon? and euclid. all in original language or as close to it as possible. what else?\" — \"and the Egyptian book of the dead\" — \"and what about the fragments of the book of baalim? i might be miswriting this. recent discovery. if theyre available anywhere.\" — \"yes yes yes to all - what a meal.\""
}