Details

Subject(s)

• Registers of births, etc—Mexico—Teabo—19th century [Browse]
• Maya language—Texts [Browse]
• Teabo (Mexico)—History—19th century—Sources [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Donor

Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Former owner

Gates, William, 1863-1940 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Leather bindings [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• blotters (bookkeeping records) [Browse]
• papers (documents) [Browse]
• manuscripts (documents) [Browse]

Contained in

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

Compiled/​Created

[1839-1851].

Linking notes

Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).

Summary note

A record of births, baptisms, and deaths at Teabo, Yucatán. The earliest date is a baptism in 1839, the latest seems to be an entry in 1891 for a member of the Nah family. These documents were composed in the Maya town of Teabo.

Binding note

Disbound quire of 8 leaves.

Language note

Text in 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. 70b, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Place name(s)

Mexico Teabo.

In

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

OCLC

53199783

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