Details

Subject(s)

• Aztec cartography [Browse]
• Mapas Mexico Manuscript [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Maps—16th century [Browse]

Contained in

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

Compiled/​Created

[15--].

Medium/​Support

leather.

Linking notes

Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).

Restrictions note

Due to the fragility of the original map, researchers must refer to the high-resolution online image or use on-site printed color surrogates.

Summary note

16th-century copy of an Aztec map painted on deerskin in blue, green, red, yellow, grey, and black pigments with Nahuatl glosses.

Language note

Text in Nahuatl.

Provenance

Acquired from C. C. James, Mexico by Robert Garrett Jan. 5, 1939. Garrett probably added this item to his collection at Princeton University Library in 1949. "This deerskin had strayed fromGarrett’s collection of manuscripts in indigenous Middle American languages before thecollection came to the Princeton University Library in 1946, perhaps because it had been lentto the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore in August 1939. It was discovered among the effectsof Garrett’s daughter, Mrs. William W. L. Reed, and presented to Princeton in 1986" per A.L. Bush.

Source acquisition

Gift Robert Garrett, 1949.

Cite as

Garrett Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 21, Manuscripts Division, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic format.

In

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

OCLC

53853617

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