Maya Medical and Botanical Texts, [between 1875 and 1900].

Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
  • Mayan languages
  • Spanish
Description
1 v. (55 leaves, paginated as 2-59, 74, 93-94) : paper ; 22 x 16 cm.

Details

Subject(s)
Donor
Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]
Former owner
Gates, William, 1863-1940 [Browse]
Getty AAT genre
Contained in
Compiled/​Created
[between 1875 and 1900].
Linking notes
Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).
Summary note
Medical-Botanical manuscript containing 324 prescriptions/recipes for the use of plants in medical remedies and treatments. Each recipe/prescription is numbered (in a modern hand) in black ink preceding the heading (name of the disease), for example "46. Bobote kaak." Diseases are grouped by type, for example f. 9-10 are devoted to different types of "kaak" "Viruela (smallpox)."
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.
Publications about
The Ethno-Botany of the Maya / Ralph Loveland Roys. New Orleans, Dept. of Middle American Research : Tulane University of Louisiana, 1931.
Cite as
Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 13, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
In
Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s
OCLC
57525191
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