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Codex Pérez : manuscript, [1877].
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Mayan languages
Description
1 v. (70 leaves) : paper, ill. ; 35 x 25 cm.
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Status
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Notes
Special Collections - Manuscripts
C0940 (Princeton Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 9)
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Subject(s)
Maya language
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Pérez, Juan Pío, 1798-1859
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Carrillo y Ancona, Crescencio, 1837-1897
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Paper
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Compiled/Created
[1877].
Linking notes
Forms part of the Princeton Mesoamerican Collection (C0940).
Biographical/Historical note
The manuscript was named, by Bishop Crescencio Carrillo y Ancona, for its 19th-century compiler, Juan Pío Pérez, who lived and worked in Mérida, Yucatán.
Summary note
An anthology containing excerpts from the Books of Chilam Balam of Maní and Oxkutzcab, tables of native and Christian calendars, prophecies, astrological almanacs, and history. The manuscript is complete, comprising both the whole of the Pérez transcription and the annotations added by Carrillo y Ancona between 1868 and 1877. The manuscript is divided into three parts. Part I contains correlations of Maya and Christian dates with prognostications based on Maya and European astrology. Part II is chiefly devoted to prophecy and historical chronicles, including the Maní Chronicle. Part III contains various almanacs, prophecies, and calendar data, plus the Maní land treaty of 1557. Also includes illustrations and Maya hieroglyphs.
Binding note
Consists of 7 unbound fascicles.
Language note
Text in Yucatec with some Spanish.
Provenance
Probably the personal fair copy of Crescencio Carrillo y Ancona, copied in late 1877.
Source acquisition
unknown.
Publications about
George E. Stuart. "The Princeton Manuscript of the Codex Pérez." Princeton University Library Chronicle 53, no. 3 (1991-92), pp. 297-309.
Cite as
Princeton Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 9, Manuscripts Division, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
Other title(s)
Códice Pérez
OCLC
60355662
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