Item Summary

Contains a calendar of "lucky and unlucky days" in K'eq'chi, with months and certain feast days written in Spanish. No year indicated, but the date 1867 is written in pen on fol. 6v on day 16 of the month of October. Also includes 4 lines of religious music with K'eq'chi text on fol. 8v, and a Latin prayer (Salve Regina?) on fol. 9v. The manuscript was probably written in Lanquin, Alta Verapaz (Guatemala), where it was later acquired by William Gates. Together with typed transcription (2 copies) laid in.

Descriptive Information

Title
Brujo calendar : manuscript, [1867].
Call Number
C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 243)
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/qf85nf62m
Language
Mayan languages
Date Created
[1867].
Format
Manuscript
Extent
1 v. (10 leaves) : paper ; 22 x 17 cm.
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.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Title supplied by William Gates.
Musical notation: 5-line staves with square notes.
Binding Note
disbound sheets.

Discovery Information

Subject
Kekchi Indians—Guatemala—Alta Verapaz—Music
Kekchi language—Texts
Songs, Kekchi
Indigenous Studies

Physical Characteristics

File Count
24

Institutional Information

Collection
Mesoamerican Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/5b980b38-0455-4b3d-9659-ddd64ce98507/manifest