Item Summary

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

Descriptive Information

Title
Aztec map on deerskin, [15--].
Call Number
North 9, C0744.02 (Garrett Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 21)
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/1j92gb548
Language
Mayan languages
Date Created
[15--].
Format
Manuscript
Extent
1 item ; 1280 x 1380 mm.
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 from Garrett’s collection of manuscripts in indigenous Middle American languages before the collection came to the Princeton University Library in 1946, perhaps because it had been lent to the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore in August 1939. It was discovered among the effects of Garrett’s daughter, Mrs. William W. L. Reed, and presented to Princeton in 1986" per A.L. Bush.
Source Acquisition
Gift Robert Garrett, 1949.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright

Discovery Information

Subject
Aztec cartography
Mapas Mexico Manuscript
Indigenous Studies

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Mesoamerican Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/c8f3b22a-65ca-4764-af28-8c709817b02b/manifest