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.”
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:
Folio 1 recto, column A, line 1
Escolio 4 recto, lines 1–2