Item Summary

20th-cent. typescript copy of 1868 transcription of an earlier document. Concerns prescriptions/recipes for the use of plants in medical remedies and treatments. Typed in red and black with text on recto only.

Descriptive Information

Title
Noticia de varias plantas y sus virtudes : typescript, [19--].
Call Number
C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 67)
Identifier
https://library.princeton.edu/mssimages/garrett-gates%20mesoamerican/garrettgatesmeso67-f1r.jpg
Language
Spanish
Date Created
[19--].
Format
Manuscript
Extent
1 v. (9 leaves) ; 28 x 21 cm.
Provenance
"Copia de un ms. eu poder de Don Pedro Regil Merida Sep[tie]mbre 1868, Dr. C.H. Berendt (Popal y escritura de [blank] de este siglo," written in pen on title page. "Regil ms. #32," written in pen on cover and later crossed out and replaced with "67," written in pencil; 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
Binding Note
Unbound sheets in folder.

Discovery Information

Subject
Materia medica, Vegetable—Mexico—19th century
Medicinal plants—Mexico—19th century
Maya languages—Texts

Physical Characteristics

File Count
18

Institutional Information

Collection
Mesoamerican Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/98656557-aca0-4379-9584-e5eda849effa/manifest