Brujo calendar : manuscript, [1867].

Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
  • Mayan languages
  • Spanish
  • Latin
Description
1 v. (10 leaves) : paper ; 22 x 17 cm.

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Location Call Number Status Location Service Notes
Special Collections - Manuscripts C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 243) Browse related items Reading Room Request
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      Subject(s)
      Donor
      Former owner
      Getty AAT genre
      Contained in
      Robert Garrett collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s.
      Compiled/​Created
      [1867].
      Linking notes
      Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).
      Summary note
      Contains a calendar of "lucky and unlucky days" in K'eq'chi, with months and certain feast days written in Spanish. No year indicated, but the date 1867 is written in pen on fol. 6v on day 16 of the month of October. Also includes 4 lines of religious music with K'eq'chi text on fol. 8v, and a Latin prayer (Salve Regina?) on fol. 9v. The manuscript was probably written in Lanquin, Alta Verapaz (Guatemala), where it was later acquired by William Gates. Together with typed transcription (2 copies) laid in.
      Notes
      • Title supplied by William Gates.
      • Musical notation: 5-line staves with square notes.
      Binding note
      disbound sheets.
      Language note
      Text in K'eq'chi, Spanish, and Latin.
      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. 243, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
      Other format(s)
      Also available in an electronic version.
      Place name(s)
      Guatemala Alta Verapaz.
      In
      Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s
      OCLC
      177661874
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