Details

Subject(s)

• Maya calendar [Browse]
• Maya astronomy [Browse]
• Mayas—Religion [Browse]
• Mayas—Medicine [Browse]
• Materia medica, Vegetable—Mexico—19th century [Browse]
• Medicinal plants—Mexico—19th century [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Former owner

• Gates, William, 1863-1940 [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Formulas, recipes, etc [Browse]
• Paper [Browse]

Contained in

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

Compiled/​Created

[ca. 1824].

Linking notes

Forms part of the Garrett Collection (C0744).

Summary note

Manuscript fragment. Contains an almanac, calendrical correlations, and medical-botanical texts. Calendar years covered in manuscript are 1797-1826, but with entries only to 1824. Includes a Spanish Prayer "Oracion; Que sea en e Santo Sepulcro ..." on old pagination (CXIV and CXV). There are 3 separate numbering systems.

Notes

Decoration: Solid line (some decorated) at the end of each paragraph; 1 embellished initial; 1 full-page illustration in blue, black, and orange watercolor of two crowned beasts pawing a central object under the moon, stars, and sun.

Binding note

In cloth box.

Language note

Text in Yucatec with some Spanish.

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 ; 1148
• Weeks, J.M. Mesoamerican Ethnohistory in United States Libraries ; 150

Cite as

Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 6, Manuscripts Division, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Incipit

• ucah ticin likel bai rin Kaxalle

In

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

OCLC

53199487

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