Item Summary

Medical-Botanical manuscript containing 324 prescriptions/recipes for the use of plants in medical remedies and treatments. Each recipe/prescription is numbered (in a modern hand) in black ink preceding the heading (name of the disease), for example "46. Bobote kaak." Diseases are grouped by type, for example f. 9-10 are devoted to different types of "kaak" "Viruela (smallpox)."

Descriptive Information

Title
Maya Medical and Botanical Texts, [between 1875 and 1900].
Call Number
C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 13)
Identifier
https://library.princeton.edu/mssimages/garrett-gates%20mesoamerican/garrettgatesmeso13-f10r.jpg
Language
Mayan languages
Date Created
[between 1875 and 1900].
Format
Manuscript
Extent
1 v. (55 leaves, paginated as 2-59, 74, 93-94) : paper ; 22 x 16 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
Copyright Not Evaluated
Binding Note
In cloth box.

Discovery Information

Subject
Materia medica, Vegetable—Mexico—19th century
Medicinal plants—Mexico—19th century
Mayas—Medicine
Maya language—Texts
Indigenous Studies

Physical Characteristics

File Count
110

Institutional Information

Collection
Mesoamerican Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/222e4c6c-9bcf-4bd8-9461-2e61afa60b08/manifest