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Charles Elliott Dibble papers, 1830-1988

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Dibble, Charles E.
Title
Charles Elliott Dibble papers
Dates
1830-1988 (inclusive)
Quantity
24.5 linear feet, (44 boxes, 1 oversize box, 1 tube, and 58 microfilm reels)
Collection Number
ACCN 1371
Summary
The Charles Elliott Dibble papers (1830-1988) contain his research and drafts of the Florentine Codex, a thirteen-volume translation of the Aztec language into English. Charles Elliott Dibble worked on the codex for thirty years, and his research includes his notes, drafts, galleys, and correspondence. Charles Elliott Dibble (1909-2002) received his B.A. in history in 1936 from the University of Utah, his M.A. in anthropology in 1938, and his Ph.D in 1942 from the Universidia Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. He also did post-doctoral work at Harvard in 1943.
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Languages
English
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Historical Note

Charles Elliott Dibble (1909-2002) received his B.A. in history in 1936 from the University of Utah, his M.A. in anthropology in 1938, and his Ph.D in 1942 from the Universidia Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. He also did post-doctoral work at Harvard in 1943.

Dr. Dibble came back to the University of Utah as an instructor in anthropology in 1941, and served as department head from 1960-1964. He is the only professor to receive the three most important awards from the University of Utah: Distinguished Research, Distinguished Teaching, and Distinguished Alumnus. In 1977 he also received the Distinguished Professor Award.

Charles Elliott Dibble, in addition to his many publications, speaking engagements, professional affiliations, awards, grants and lectures, is most recognized for one enormous body of work. Along with Dr. Arthur J.O. Anderson, he was responsible for the translation and publication of the Florentine Codex, first envisioned by the Franciscan priest, Fray Bernadino de Sahagun, from Aztec to English. This work, originally envisioned as a five-year project, eventually became a thirty-year labor of love that resulted in several awards in its own right. In 1981, Dr. Dibble received the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle, that country's highest honor, and in 1984, he was awarded the decoration and title Knight Commander "Order de Isabel la Catolica," by the King of Spain.

Charles Elliott Dibble was married to Audrey Sarah Nelson from December 1936, until her death in September 2002. They had four children, twenty-three grandchildren, and eleven great-grandchildren. Dr. Dibble died on 30 November, 2002.

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Content Description

The Charles Elliott Dibble papers (1830-1988) contain his research and drafts of the Florentine Codex, a thirteen-volume translation of the Aztec language into English. Charles Elliott Dibble worked on the codex for thirty years, and his research includes his notes, drafts, galleys, and correspondence.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library's Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

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Administrative Information

Processing Note

Processed by Elizabeth Rogers in 2004.

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Separated Materials

See also the Charles Elliot Dibble photograph collection (P1149) in the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Personal Papers and Correspondence

  • Prologues, Excerpts, Introduction, Books 1-12, Indices and Appendices

    All of the folders contained in this series are drafts.

  • Preface, Indices, Definitions, Bibliographies, and Word Lists

  • Sahagun's Historia, Appendices, and a History of the Codes

    All of the folders contained in this series are drafts.

  • Notes, Books 5-9, Codex Notes and Drafts

  • The Florentine Codex

    • Description: The Florentine Codex

      The contents of this box are photographed pages of the Florentine Codex, and include both text and pictures. They are draft photos.

      Container: Box 22
      Location: The Florentine Codex
    • Description: The Florentine Codex

      The contents of this box are photographed pages of the Florentine Codex, and include both text and pictures. They are draft photos.

      Container: Box 23
      Location: The Florentine Codex
    • Description: The Florentine Codex

      The contents of this box are photographed pages of the Florentine Codex, and include both text and pictures. They are draft photos.

      Container: Box 24
      Location: The Florentine Codex
    • Description: The Florentine Codex

      The contents of this box are photographed pages of the Florentine Codex, and include both text and pictures. They are draft photos.

      Container: Box 25
      Location: The Florentine Codex
    • Description: The Florentine Codex

      The contents of this box are photographed pages of the Florentine Codex, and include both text and pictures. They are draft photos.

      Container: Box 26
      Location: The Florentine Codex

  • Plant Index and the Fabri Lyncei Description

  • Libros

    • Description: Libro Vendecimo
      Container: Box 29, Folder 1-4
      Location: Libros
    • Description: Libro Nono de
      Container: Box 29, Folder 5
      Location: Libros
    • Description: Libro Segundo
      Container: Box 30, Folder 1-3
      Location: Libros
    • Description: Libro Tercero
      Container: Box 30, Folder 4
      Location: Libros
    • Description: Libro Decimo
      Container: Box 30, Folder 5-8
      Location: Libros
    • Description: Libro VIII
      Container: Box 31, Folder 1
      Location: Libros
    • Description: Libro Septimo
      Container: Box 31, Folder 2
      Location: Libros
    • Description: Libro Quarto
      Container: Box 31, Folder 3-4
      Location: Libros
    • Description: Libro Duodecimo
      Container: Box 31, Folder 5
      Location: Libros
    • Description: Libro de los Dios
      Container: Box 31, Folder 6
      Location: Libros

  • Articles and Essays

    • Description: Vowort

      This essay is in German.

      Container: Box 32, Folder 1
      Location: Articles and Essays
    • Description: Breve Campandio de los Ritos Idolatricos

      This essay is in Spanish.

      Container: Box 32, Folder 2
      Location: Articles and Essays
    • Description: A Preliminary Manual of Nahuatl Grammar

      R. Joe Campbell

      Container: Box 32, Folder 3-8
      Location: Articles and Essays
    • Description: Articles by J. Eric S. Thompson

      "The Fish as a Maya Symbol for Counting," 1944; "A Blood-Drawing Ceremony Painted in a Maya Vase," 1961; "John Hawkins' Ship Boys in Mexico," 1961; "The Relacion De Tecuanapa, Guerrero," 1965; "Preliminary Decipherments of Maya Glyphs 1, 3, 4-6"; "The Role of Caves in Maya Culture,""Estimates of Maya Population: Deranging Factors,""El Misterio del Diccionario Maya de Solana," 1962; "1914 Carnegie Institution of Washington Ingresa al Campo Maya," 1964; "Frans Bloom," 1964; "Lunar Inscriptions in the Usumacintla Valley;""A Copper Mask and a Stone Mask from Middle America," 1965;"A Noble's Residence and Its Dependencies at Mayapan," 1955; "Symbols, Glyphs, and Divinatory Almanacs for Diseases in the Maya Dresden and Madrid Codices," 1958; "Maya Astromony," 1974; "The Mayan Glyph for Capture or Conquest and an Iconographic Representation of Itzam Na on Yucatecan Facades," 1973.

      Dates: 1944-1973
      Container: Box 33, Folder 1
      Location: Articles and Essays
    • Description: Articles and Essays

      Lewis Hanke, "American Historians and the World Today: Responsibilities and Opportunities," 1975; Eva Hunt, "The Provenience and Contents of the Porfirio Diaz and Fernandex Leal Codices: Some New Data and Analysis," 1975; Gerdt Kutscher, "The Translation of the Cantares Mexicanos by Leonhard Schultze Jena"; Dudley T. Easby Jr. and Elizabeth Kennedy Easby, "A Zapotec Get-Together," 1962; Detlef Heikamp, "American Objects in Italian Collections of the Renaissance and Baroque: A Survey"; Don D. Fowler, "Uses of the Past: Archeology in the Service of the State" 1987.

      Dates: 1962-1987
      Container: Box 33, Folder 2
      Location: Articles and Essays
    • Description: Articles and Essays

      Willard P. Gingerich, "A Bibliographic Introduction to Twenty Manuscripts of Classical Nahuatl Literature," 1975; Herbert R. Harvey, "The Florentine Codex"; Eloise Quinones Keber, "Art as History: The Illustrated Chronicle of the Codex Telleriano-Remensis as a Historical Source," 1984

      Dates: 1975-1984
      Container: Box 33, Folder 3
      Location: Articles and Essays
    • Description: Articles and Essays

      Donald Robertson, "The Relaciones Geograficas of Mexico," 1958; "The Techailoyan Codex of Tepotzotlan: Codex X, 1960"; "The Mixtec Religious Manuscripts," 1966; Mary Elizabeth Smith, "Codex Selden: A Manuscript from the Valley of Nochixtlan?"

      Dates: 1958-1966
      Container: Box 33, Folder 4
      Location: Articles and Essays
    • Description: Articles by Bernard Ortiz

      '"Reduction of Holistic Medicine: Its Role in Latin America," 1979; "Minorities and Medical Professional Monopoly: Political and Ethical Aspects of the Interaction of Scientific and Traditional Medicine," 1980; "The Venus Calendar and the Borgia-Group Codices"; "The Meso-American Calendar: Philosophy and Computations"; "Proposal Cities of Man: Tenochtitlan"; "Aztec Cannibalism: An Ecological Necessity?"

      Dates: 1979-1980
      Container: Box 33, Folder 5
      Location: Articles and Essays
    • Description: Articles and Essays

      Eloise Quinones Keber, "The Sahaguntine Corpus: A Bibliographic Index of Extant Documents," 1988; Eike Hinz, "Cognition and Affect in Sahagun's Aztec Texts"; Cornelia Mak, "Mixtec Medical Beliefs and Practices"; Oriol Vallsi Subira, "Paper and Watermarks in Catalonia"; Howard F. Cline, "Descriptive Notes on the Sahagun MSS"

      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box 33, Folder 6
      Location: Articles and Essays
    • Description: Articles and Essays

      J. C. Beltrame, "Le Mexique," 1830; Marc Eisinger, "Index Lexical du Codex de Florence"; Joaquin Galazara, "Glyphes et Attributs Chretiens dans les Manuscrits Pictographiques Mexicains du XVI Siecle: Le Codex Mexicanus 23-24," 1966, and "Prenoms et Noms de Lieux Exprimes par des Glyphes et des Attributs Chretiens dans les Manuscrits Picographiques Mexicains"; Jacqueline de Durand-Forest, "Approche u Mexique Ancien," and De l'attribution du Manscrit 342 de la Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris.

      Dates: 1830-1966
      Container: Box 34, Folder 1
      Location: Articles and Essays
    • Description: Articles and Essays

      Al de Humboldt, "Vues des Cordilleres et Monumens des Peuples Indigenies de L'Amerique," 1916; M. Le Colonel Doutrelaine, "Un Manuscrit Mexicain," 1866; Guy Stresser-Pean, "La Technique Moderne de L'Exploration, 1955; Catalogue de la Biblioteque Americaine, "Avant-Propos," and "Antiquities Mexicaines."

      Dates: 1866-1955
      Container: Box 34, Folder 2
      Location: Articles and Essays
    • Description: Articles and Essays

      "Memoires sur la Peinture Didactique et L'Ecriture Figurative des Anciens Mexicaines."

      Container: Box 34, Folder 3
      Location: Articles and Essays
    • Description: Articles and Essays

      Ernst Mengin, "Bocabulario de Mayathan," 1975; Ursula Sachse, "Zum Problem der Sweiten Gesellschaftlichen Arbeitsteilung bei den Azteca," 1963; Karl Anton Nowotny, "Die Hieroglyphen des Codex Mendoza," "Vorbemerkung des Herausgerbers"; Theodor-Wilhelm Danzel, "Mitteilungen aus dem Museum Fur Volerkunde in Hamburg XI," 1926.

      Dates: 1926-1975
      Container: Box 34, Folder 4
      Location: Articles and Essays
    • Description: Articles and Essays

      Karl Anton Nowotny, "Die Chronik der Historyre du Mechique," 1954; Walter Lehmann, "Sterbende Gotter un Christliche Heilsbotschaft," 1954; "Die Historischen Nachrighten uber die Mexikanischen feder-Und Mosaikarbeiten in Wien," "Der Codex Bedker II," 1957; "Die Bilderfolge des Codex Dindobonensis und Derwandter Handschriften," 1959; "Uber Aufgaben der Mexikanistik;" "Der Codex Becker I (Le Manuscrit du Cacique)," 1959; "Die Ahua Equation"; Hans Dietschy, "Mensch und Gott bei Mexikanischen Indianern," 1941; Ernest Mengin, "Uberstzt und Erlautert."

      Dates: 1941-1959
      Container: Box 34, Folder 5
      Location: Articles and Essays
    • Description: Essay

      Fue Pintado el Codex de Cuaxicala (Donde, Cuando y en que Condiciones)

      Container: Box 34, Folder 6
      Location: Articles and Essays
    • Description: Articles and Essays

      Bernard Ortiz, "La Relacion entre las Ciencias Fiscas yla Historiografia en el estudio," 1981; Alfredo Lopez Austin, "Estudio Acerca del motado de Investiacion de Fray Bernadino de Sahagun," 1969; "Tlatilco, A traves se su Ceramica"

      Dates: 1969-1981
      Container: Box 35, Folder 1
      Location: Articles and Essays
    • Description: Essays and Articles

      "Codice de Tlateloloco," Xochipilli, 1986; Francisco Vindel, "Estudios y Marcas de Impresores y Libreros en Espana," 1942; "La Rinascita della Scienza"; Stefano de Rosa, "Ulisse Aldrovandi e la Toscana: 4 Lettre inedite dello Scienziato a Francesco I e Ferdinando I de Medici e a Belisario Vinta," 1981; Eulalia Buzman, "Manuscritos sobre Mexico en Archivos de Italia"

      Dates: 1942-1986
      Container: Box 35, Folder 2
      Location: Articles and Essays
    • Description: Articles and Essays

      Manuel Carrera Stampa, "Relaciones Geograficas de Nueva Espasa Siglos XVI y XVII," 1986; Georges Baudot, "Apariciones Diabolicas en un Texto Nahuatl de Fray Andres de Olmos," 1972; and "Un Senorio Guatemalteco segun sus Caciques Indigenas a Fines del Siglo XVI," 1972; X. A. Domonguez S., "Algunos Aspectos Quimicos y Farmacologicos de Sustancias Aisladas de las Plantas Descritas en el Codice Badiano," 1969; Lewis Hanke, "Aristoteles y los Indios Americanos"; Actes du XXCIIIe Congres International des Americanistes," 1947; Joaquin Galarza, "Un Index de Manuscrits Pictographiques Mexicains;" A. Martha Rosario, "Los Propositos de Sahagun;" Frederick Hicks, "Social Stratification and the Calpixque of Aztec Mexico," 1977.

      Dates: 1947-1986
      Container: Box 35, Folder 3
      Location: Articles and Essays
    • Description: Articles and Essays

      Pedro Carrasco, "Las Tierra de dos Indios Nobles de Tepeaca en el Siglo XVI," Los Caciques Chichimecas de Tulancingo," 1963; "Los Nombres de Persona en la Guatemala Antigua," 1964; "Tres Libros de Tributos del Museo Nacional de Mexico y su Impotancia para los Estudios Demograficos," 1964; "Una Cuenta Ritual Entre los Zapotecos de Sur;" Donald D. Brand, "El "Ensayo Politico sobre el Reino de la Nueva Espana," de Humboldt;" Jose Ignacio Davila Baribi, "La Escritura del Idiome Nahuatl a Traves de los Siglos."

      Dates: 1963-1964
      Container: Box 35, Folder 4
      Location: Articles and Essays
    • Description: "Una Clasificacion Botanica entre los Nahoas?"

      Bernardo Ortiz

      Dates: 1976
      Container: Box 35, Folder 5
      Location: Articles and Essays
    • Description: Articles and Essays

      D. Angel Ma Garibay K., "Antologia de la Poesia Indigena de Mexico Ajohca de Cantos Flomidos"; Alfredo Lopez Austin, "Iconografia Mexica, el Monolito Verde del Templo Mayor," and "Los Textos en Idioma Nahuatl y los Historiadores Contemporaneos."

      Container: Box 36, Folder 1
      Location: Articles and Essays
    • Description: Articles and Essays

      Jesus Galindo y Villa, "Don Francisco del paso y Troncoso"; Don Francisco del paso y Troncoso, "Sobre el Codice Mexicano del P. Sahagun."

      Container: Box 36, Folder 2
      Location: Articles and Essays
    • Description: Articles and Essays

      Wigberto Jimenez Moreno, "Los Portadores de la Cultura Teotihuacana," 1974; "Antecedentes de los Estudios de Linguistica Moderna," 1975; "MesoAmerica," 1976; "Historiografia Prehispanca y Colonial de Mexico,"1976; "Los Imperios Prehispanicos de Mesoamerica," 1966.

      Dates: 1966-1976
      Container: Box 36, Folder 3
      Location: Articles and Essays
    • Description: Articles and Essays

      Ramon Mena, "Filigranas," 1926; Francisco Gonzalex de Cosslo. "El Libro de las Tasaciones de Pueblos de la Nueva Espana," 1952

      Dates: 1926-1952
      Container: Box 36, Folder 4
      Location: Articles and Essays
    • Description: Articles and Essays

      Rafael Martin del Campo, "Esayo de Interpretacion del Libro de la Historia General d las Cosas de Nueva Espana de Fray Bernadino de Sahagun III," 1941; Francisco Cervantes de Salazar, "Tumulo Imperial de la Gran Ciudad de Mexico," 1929.

      Dates: 1929-1941
      Container: Box 36, Folder 5
      Location: Articles and Essays
    • Description: Articles and Essays

      J. Sanchez "Las dos Piedras;" Pablo Martinez del Rio, "La Adventura Mexicana de Sir John Hawkins," 1943; Don Carlos, "Proceso Criminal de Santo Oficio de la Inquisicion," 1910; Zelia Nuttal, "Francisco Cervantes de Salazar," 1921

      Dates: 1910-1943
      Container: Box 36, Folder 6
      Location: Articles and Essays
    • Description: Miscellaneous Articles
      Container: Box 36, Folder 7-8
      Location: Articles and Essays
    • Description: "Revisiting a Reluctant Treasure: A Pilgrimage to Charles Dibble" by Elise Lazar
      Container: Box 36, Folder 9
      Location: Articles and Essays

  • General Materials

  • Microfilm

    • Description: Les Filigranes I and II
      Container: Reel 1
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Hernandez
      Container: Reel 2
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Hernandez
      Container: Reel 3
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: 1783 Dictionary
      Container: Reel 4
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Mendoza Codex
      Container: Reel 5
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Colloquies
      Container: Reel 6
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Tolosa
      Container: Reel 7
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Hubin Memoires
      Container: Reel 8
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: 1486 Sahagun Tratado

      Ayer

      Container: Reel 9
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Vergara "My Films"
      Container: Reel 10
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Tonalaniatl Aubin Seler Study
      Container: Reel 11
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Montomay
      Container: Reel 12
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Einiqe Katitel
      Container: Reel 13
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Justicio
      Container: Reel 14
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Gante
      Dates: 1553
      Container: Reel 15
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Ayer 1486
      Container: Reel 16
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Doctorina Evangelros Sahagun
      Container: Reel 17
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Notes on Dancing Four Calender
      Container: Reel 18
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Saguhan Colloquies
      Container: Reel 19
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Sahagun Compendio
      Container: Reel 20
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Breve Compendio
      Container: Reel 21
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Breve Compendio
      Container: Reel 22
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Huehue Tlatolli
      Container: Reel 23
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Sahagun Biondelli
      Container: Reel 24
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Sahagun
      Container: Reel 25
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Ayer 1467
      Container: Reel 26
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: 1467 New Testament
      Container: Reel 27
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Borbonicas
      Container: Reel 28
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Chianhtla
      Container: Reel 29
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Tepetla
      Container: Reel 30
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Sahagun Psalmodia Christiana
      Container: Reel 31
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Archaeological Researches of Teotihuacan
      Container: Reel 32
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Leon y Gama
      Container: Reel 33
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Libro de Novios
      Container: Reel 34
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Ayer 1484
      Container: Reel 35
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: San Luis Pitosi
      Container: Reel 36
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Rios
      Container: Reel 37
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Molina Confesario & Dominican
      Dates: 1550
      Container: Reel 38
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Monterrey Ms
      Container: Reel 39
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Sahugun
      Container: Reel 40
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Sahagun Florentine
      Container: Reel 41
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Florentine Palat 218
      Container: Reel 42
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Sahagun Palaz 218
      Container: Reel 43-44
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Sahagun Palaz 220
      Container: Reel 45
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Sahagun Aparicien
      Container: Reel 46
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Sahagun Aparicien
      Container: Reel 47
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Tolosa and Ramirez
      Container: Reel 48
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Brown Sahagun

      There is a question from Charles E. Dibble as to the identity of this reel.

      Container: Reel 49
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Ayer Ms 1485
      Container: Reel 50
      Location: Microfilm
    • Description: Miscellaneous Reels
      Container: Reel 51-57
      Location: Microfilm

Finding aid prepared by Elizabeth Rogers
2004 (last modified: 2019)

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