Details

Subject(s)

• Mayas—Medicine [Browse]
• Methodist—Prayers and devotions [Browse]
• Materia medica, Vegetable—Mexico—Yucatán (State)—19th century [Browse]
• Medicinal plants—Mexico—Yucatán (State)—19th century [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Former owner

• Gates, William, 1863-1940 [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

Manuscript written in an unidentified hand, probably dating to the late 19th-century, apparently a catechism in Maya for Methodists. The Maya title says it is to be used in the family and schools. Includes a catechism with questions first in Spanish then in Mayan-Yucatec (p. 3-14); p. 15-20 are blank; extracts from a medical botanical ms. with the heading "Conosimiento y virtudes de las yerbas Yucatecas estractadas del manuscripto que dejo D. Richardo Osada -- alias el Judio" (p. 21-51); p. 52 is blank. Leaves are unnumbered.

Notes

• Title supplied by William E. Gates.
• "68"--Label, written in pen on f. 1r.
• "Catecismo en Maya - Methodist"--Written in pen on cover.

Binding note

Bound in a fragment of a folder with the monogram of the American Art Association; in cloth box.

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. 68, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Other title(s)

• Conosimiento y virtudes de las yerbas Yucatecas
• Catecismo en Maya - Methodist

In

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

OCLC

53199537

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