Details

Subject(s)

• Materia medica, Vegetable—Mexico—19th century [Browse]
• Medicinal plants—Mexico—19th century [Browse]
• Mayas—Medicine [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]

Contained in

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

Compiled/​Created

[between 1875 and 1900].

Linking notes

Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).

Summary note

Medical-botanical manuscript. Contains prescriptions/recipes for the use of plants in medical remedies and treatments. The manuscript is written in Spanish, containing only the Mayan plant names where necessary for identification.

Binding note

In cloth box.

Language note

Texts in Spanish, with some 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. 11, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

In

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

OCLC

57525175

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