Details

Subject(s)

• Mayas—Religion [Browse]
• Sermons—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Maya language—Texts [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

• Sermons—18th century [Browse]
• Paper [Browse]

Contained in

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

Compiled/​Created

[17--].

Linking notes

Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).

Summary note

Manuscript Mayan sermons. Titles include "Libro de Matrimonio de predicaciones de pariente" (p. 1); "Huntul soldado" (p. 4); "Julian" (p. 7); "Pilato" (p. 12), etc. Includes occasional rubrics, titles, words, and names in Latin and Spanish.

Binding note

Original binding. Text block sewn onto three thongs, which are laced into a heavy leather wrapper.

Language note

Text in Yucatec with some Latin and 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.

Cite as

Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 65, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Other title(s)

Libro de matrimonio de predicaciones de pariente

In

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

OCLC

53199805

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