Item Summary

Maya translation of a Spanish work titled "Ramillete de Divinas Flores" (bouquet of divine flowers), which is a guide on how to die well, or an "Arte de Bien Morir" (art of dying well), by Don Bernardo Sierra.

Descriptive Information

Title
Maya translation of "Ramillete de Divinas Flores" : manuscript, [before 1810].
Call Number
C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 70a)
Identifier
https://library.princeton.edu/mssimages/garrett-gates%20mesoamerican/garrettgatesmeso70a-f1r.jpg
Language
Mayan languages
Date Created
[before 1810].
Format
Manuscript
Extent
1 v. (37 leaves) : paper ; 15 x 11 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
Contents
p. 1-4: explanation of Trinity
p. 4: Oracion para la muerte, Suplica al Señor
p. 5-33: Otra suplica al Señor
p. 33: Ofreciciento a nuestra señora Natividad y Asumpcion
p. 35: Exemplo
p. 37: Sermon for each day: [Monday, sickness]
p. 39: [Tuesday, the body and the soul]
p. 43: [Wednesday, destroying the devils]
p. 47: [Thursday, giving oneself to death]
p. 50: [Friday, dead people]
p. 51: [Saturday, interment]
p. 58: [Sunday, Burial]
p. 62-72.
Binding Note
Heavy leather wrapper, with blind tooling on the upper and lower covers and remnants of leather end ties.

Discovery Information

Subject
Theology, Doctrinal—Mexico—19th century
Maya language—Texts
Indigenous Studies

Physical Characteristics

File Count
78

Institutional Information

Collection
Mesoamerican Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/df7a5e06-ae18-4cfd-b61d-5f532504c39b/manifest