[5] An illustration in the document shows that the Maya nobility of Quetzaltenango adopted the double-headed Habsburg Eagle as their family crest.
[6] The original Kʼicheʼ document, including two illustrations, is held by the Robert Garrett Collection of Middle American Manuscripts at the Princeton University Library.
[11] By 1973, the document was held by the Princeton University Library as part of the Robert Garrett Collection of Middle American Manuscripts.
The text was likely to have been based on that of another document written using the Latin script as taught by the Spanish friars, rather than being compiled from a pre-Columbian codex as was probably the case with the Popul Vuh.
[12] The main purpose of the document was to establish the noble origin of the Cʼoyoi lineage, and its claim to land holdings and right to rule.
[12] In a few places the document includes dialogue, which is described as the "words of the ancestors"; this is similar to some portions of the Popul Vuh.
These instances of poetic dialogue may ultimately derive from chanted or sung accompaniments to pre-Columbian Maya codices.