Instructions de timir anil y tinta : manuscript, 1836 June 6.

Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
  • Mayan languages
  • K'iche'
  • Spanish
Description
4 leaves : paper ; 31 x 21 cm.

Details

Subject(s)
Donor
Former owner
Rare books genre
Getty AAT genre
Contained in
Compiled/​Created
1836 June 6.
Linking notes
Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).
Summary note
Contains instructions for the use of native dyes. Written in the "Pueblo de San Christoval Totonicapan" Text uses the K'iche' special characters. Text written in black and red ink.
Notes
Text begins "En el Pueblo de San christoval totom capan Junio seis de mil-ochocientos treinte y seis años. instruccion. Para timir...".
Binding note
Unbound sheets.
Language note
Text in K'iche' 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. 158, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
Place name(s)
Guatemala Totonicapán.
In
Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s
OCLC
1340473536
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