Maya Fragments - Medicinal Plants : manuscript, [between 1800 and 1850].

Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
  • Mayan languages
  • Spanish
Description
1 item (7 leaves with old foliation, 33, 41-46) : paper ; 21 x 15.6 cm.

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Special Collections - Manuscripts C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 8) Browse related items Reading Room Request
    Special Collections - Manuscripts C0744 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
      [between 1800 and 1850].
      Linking notes
      Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).
      Summary note
      Manuscript fragments concerning the medicinal uses of plants for curing specific diseases.
      Notes
      Title supplied by William E. Gates.
      Language note
      Text in Yucatec with some 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. 8, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
      Other format(s)
      Also available in an electronic version.
      Incipit
      • U Xinil Nohkak X Cantaci Kak Zaemuckak
      In
      Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s
      OCLC
      57525158
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