Aztec map on deerskin, [15--].

Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Mayan languages
Description
1 item ; 1280 x 1380 mm.

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Location Call Number Status Location Service Notes
Special Collections - Manuscripts C0744.02 (Garrett Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 21) North 9, Browse related items Reading Room Request
    Special Collections - Manuscripts C0744 Browse related items Reading Room Request

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      Subject(s)
      Getty AAT genre
      Contained in
      Robert Garrett collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s.
      Compiled/​Created
      [15--].
      Medium/​Support
      leather.
      Linking notes
      Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).
      Restrictions note
      Due to the fragility of the original map, researchers must refer to the high-resolution online image or use on-site printed color surrogates.
      Summary note
      16th-century copy of an Aztec map painted on deerskin in blue, green, red, yellow, grey, and black pigments with Nahuatl glosses.
      Language note
      Text in Nahuatl.
      Provenance
      Acquired from C. C. James, Mexico by Robert Garrett Jan. 5, 1939. Garrett probably added this item to his collection at Princeton University Library in 1949. "This deerskin had strayed fromGarrett’s collection of manuscripts in indigenous Middle American languages before thecollection came to the Princeton University Library in 1946, perhaps because it had been lentto the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore in August 1939. It was discovered among the effectsof Garrett’s daughter, Mrs. William W. L. Reed, and presented to Princeton in 1986" per A.L. Bush.
      Source acquisition
      Gift Robert Garrett, 1949.
      Cite as
      Garrett Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 21, Manuscripts Division, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
      Other format(s)
      Also available in an electronic format.
      In
      Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s
      OCLC
      53853617
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