Details

Subject(s)

• Mayas—History [Browse]
• Calkiní (Mexico)—History [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Former owner

• Gates, William, 1863-1940 [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Paper [Browse]

Contained in

Robert Garrett collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s.

Compiled/​Created

[ca. 1821].

Linking notes

Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).

Summary note

Contains a historical chronicle concerning the geographical description of the province of Ah Canul; listing of native leaders in the province and succession to office; historical account of relations among native leaders and changes in command in the last half of the 16th-century. The last folio includes the Spanish date November 20, 1821.

Notes

• Decoration: The subtitle on p. 32 is embellished by 2 outstretched arms with hands pointing in opposite directions.
• Layout: 1 column, 25 lines.

Binding note

In cloth box.

Language note

Text in Yucatec.

Provenance

Previously owned by William Gates; sold to Robert Garrett (purchased from William Gates in 1930); deposited by Garrett at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in 1942; removed from the Institute in 1949, at Garrett's request, and donated to the Princeton University Library.

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett; 1949.

References

Cline, H. F. Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources, 1143

Cite as

Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 4, Manuscripts Division, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Other format(s)

• Microfilm available for duplication.
• Facsimile reproduction: The Maya Calkini Chronicle. Baltimore : Maya Society, 1935.
• Published translation: Códice de Calkini / proemio y versión de Alfredo Barrera-Vásquez. Campeche : Gobierno del Estado [de Campeche], 1957.
• Facsimile reproduction, with introduction, transcription, translation, and notes by Tsubasa Okoshi Harada: Códice de Calkini. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2009.

Incipit

• canul_xan_y ah Sulim_canul y ah cha cah canul ...

In

Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s

OCLC

177440592

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