Escolios: Folio 1, Side 2: Lines 21–25
In this passage, Ximénez likens his native parishioners to children, calling them “níños, con barbas.” He characterizes their disposition by citing Saint Paul (“como S. Pablo deçía de sí de su hedad pueril”), in an allusion to 1 Corinthians 13:11:
“When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways.”
Escolios: folio 1, side 2: lines 25–26
This is a reference to material in the Tratado segundo, bound together with Empiezan las historias... (or the Popol Vuh) in Ayer MS 1515 at the Newberry Library.
Escolios: folio 2, side 1: lines 17–21
Escolios: folio 3, side 1: line 1
Escolios: folio 4, side 1, line 5
Escolios: folio 4, side 2, line 44
Escolios: Folio 3, side 1, line 18
Escolios: Folio 4, side 2, line 3 (“Gen 1. n. 2.”)
Escolios: Folio 4, side 2, line 4 (“Deí ferebatur super aquas”)
Here, Ximénez cites Genesis 1:2 from the Vulgate edition: et spiritus Dei ferebatur super aquas, “and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.”
Escolios: Folio 2, side 1, lines 3–6
These are fragments of a “Confesionario en Lengua Quíche.” Ximénez included full confesionarios elsewhere in the manuscript.
Escolio 4 recto, lines 27–31
Ximénez employs the apparent neologism “duodernídad” to characterize the dual nature of divinity within the Popol Wuj. He specifically references Folio 1 recto of his Empiezan las historias… manuscript, in which deities are almost always mentioned in pairs: Tzaqol, Bitol; Alom, Qajolom.
Escolios: Folio 2, side 1, lines 22–41
Here Ximénez recounts an incident that he also included in his Historia de la provincia. Because his conclusions in the Historia and Escolios differ substantially, we reproduce key lines from the Historia in full:
Escolios: Folio 4, side 1, lines 14–20
The beginning of line 16 is unclear in the manuscript. I have transcribed it here as “exprE su posita materia,” though it can also be read as “expresa posita materia.” Karl Scherzer renders it as “expresa su posita materia,” filling in what Ximénez glossed over. We attach an image here so that readers can make their own interpretations, and share them with us.
Néstor Quiroa, working from the original manuscript, translates this paragraph as follows:
Escolio 4 recto, line 25
Folio 15 verso, column B, line 37
In the Escolios, Ximénez connects the passage in which Ixkik’ is impregnated with Junajpu by the saliva of Jun Junajpu with Mary’s conception of Jesus by the Holy Spirit. His note in the Escolios includes the phrase “num. fol. ”, indicating that he intended to cite the page on which this scene occurs. But unlike other textual concordances in the Escolios, Ximénez did not fill in the numbers for this passage.
Folio 1 recto, column A, line 21
Folio 1 recto, column B, lines 25–35
Escolio 4 verso, lines 34–42
Folio 1 recto, column A, line 1
Escolio 4 recto, lines 1–2