Details

Subject(s)

• Mayas—Medicine [Browse]
• Materia medica, Vegetable—Mexico—19th century [Browse]
• Medicinal plants—Mexico—19th century [Browse]
• Maya language—Texts [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]
• manuscripts (documents) [Browse]

Contained in

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

Compiled/​Created

[18--?].

Linking notes

Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).

Summary note

Manuscript concerning specifications of plants used and the manner of their preparation for cures for Ahito, almorranas, azma, ardores de inflamacion, de la orina, y de aradoes (p. 1); maxcay, tacam, x chac mulal kak (p. 2); and para azma (p. 3). Verso of second leaf (p. 4) is blank.

Language note

Text in Spanish and 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.

Cite as

Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 7, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Incipit

Ahito Pysipuluakil

In

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

OCLC

57525133

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