Catecismoob Ti Le Metodistaoob compilado yetel publicado Tioklal Le Utuxtah..., [between 1875 and 1900].

Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
  • Spanish
  • Mayan languages
Description
1 v. (26 leaves) : paper ; 17 x 11 cm.

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Special Collections - Manuscripts C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 68) 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
      Contained in
      Robert Garrett collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s.
      Compiled/​Created
      [between 1875 and 1900].
      Linking notes
      Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).
      Summary note
      Manuscript written in an unidentified hand, probably dating to the late 19th-century, apparently a catechism in Maya for Methodists. The Maya title says it is to be used in the family and schools. Includes a catechism with questions first in Spanish then in Mayan-Yucatec (p. 3-14); p. 15-20 are blank; extracts from a medical botanical ms. with the heading "Conosimiento y virtudes de las yerbas Yucatecas estractadas del manuscripto que dejo D. Richardo Osada -- alias el Judio" (p. 21-51); p. 52 is blank. Leaves are unnumbered.
      Notes
      • Title supplied by William E. Gates.
      • "68"--Label, written in pen on f. 1r.
      • "Catecismo en Maya - Methodist"--Written in pen on cover.
      Binding note
      Bound in a fragment of a folder with the monogram of the American Art Association; in cloth box.
      Language note
      Text in Spanish and Yucatec.
      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. 68, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
      Other title(s)
      • Conosimiento y virtudes de las yerbas Yucatecas
      • Catecismo en Maya - Methodist
      In
      Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s
      OCLC
      53199537
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