786 NORTH AMERICAN LINGUISTICS. 
4021 Viana (i). Francisco). [Manuscripts.] * 
Arte de la lengua de Vera Paz. — Vocabulario y sermones de la misma. — Flos 
santorum. — Metodo p" confesario. — Catecismo. — Vida de Jesucristo. — Tratado de 
los Novisimos del Hombre. — Metodo de asister d la santa Misa. Todo en lengua 
de los Indios. — Tratado de la Justicia p" los Alcaldes mayores de Indias. 
Dr. Franc" Viana was a native of Alava, a member of the Dominican order, 
to Tvhicb be consecrated bimself at Salamanca. He moved to the province of 
Chiapa and lived in the convent of Coban, which he not only directed but also 
rebuilt, as well as that of Zacaijula. He was at various times Definidor of hia 
province, and died in 1609, leaving the foregoing manuscripts. 
Most of the above works were translated into the Kiche idiom of Guatemala 
by Fr. Dionysio de Zuiiiga, Dominican of the same province of St. Vicente. — 
Bei'istain. 
4022 Vico (P. Fr. Domingo de). Vae rucam ru vubil nima viitz Theo- 
logia Indorum, ru binaam, tihobal quicliim Indio cristiano, pa ru 
chabal. Dios Nima — Ahau pa Cacchequel chicovi [Auctore Ven. P. 
Fr. Dominico de Vico, Ord. Saucti Dominici]. * 
1 unnumbered 1., contaiuing a notice by the copyist, Fr. Juan Ruiz; 130 11,, in 
writing which appears to belong to the 17th century, folio. 
4023 Theologia Indorum, scripta in Lingua Tzutuhila a Ven. 
Patre in Ohristo Fr. Dominico de Vico, ordinis Prsedicatorum de 
Prov=' dicta de Sancti Vincentii de Cliiapa el Guatemala. * 
Manuscript. 2611. 4°. The first leaf with the title is missing. A translation, 
written in a clear and beautiful hand, in the Tzutuliile language, of the life of 
Onr Lord Jesus Christ. 
4024 Sermones de San Matbias Apostol, de la Anunciacion de 
Maria Santissima y de San Marcos Evangelista, en Lengua Tzutuhil. 
Manuscript. 16 11. folio, which the annotator of the Theologia Indorum seems 
to attribute to Father de Vico. — Brasseur de Bourbowg. * 
4025 ■ Arte de la lengua Qicbe 6 Utlatecat. Seguido del modo 
de bien vivir en la misma lengua, sacado de los escritos del Ven. 
Padre Fr. Domingo de Vico. * 
Manuscript. 34 11. 4°. The first 18 leaves contain the grammar ; the next leaf 
is missing ; the others contain the second part. 
This manuscript was given to me by a native chief of Rabinal, in 1855. He 
assured me that it was by Father Domingo de Vico, which would seem to be 
confirmed by the final t of the word Utlatecat, here found — an ancient form long 
since obsolete. Upon the word of this chief I have inscribed the name of Vico 
on this document. 
Vico had an admirable knowledge of the principal languages of Guatemala, 
and wrote, among other works, six grammars of different languages. These 
works remained in manuscript and disappeared one after the other, with the 
exception of those which are mentioned here. The one which is most to be re- 
gretted is a Historia de los Indios, de sus fabulas, supersticiones, costumbres, 
etc., mentioned by Remesal. 
To Father de Vico all the Guatemalan writers refer when a work written or 
about to be written in one of the native languages is in question. No one un- 
derstood them equally well or could make use of them in a manner so complete 
and so remarkable. — Brasseur de Bourbourg. 
Beristain, quoting fi-om Remesal, gives the following list of works by P. Vico: 
Teologias para los Indios, en Lengua de Vera Paz. 4 tomos.— Libro de loa 
