Item Summary

Medical-botanical manuscript. Contains prescriptions/recipes for the use of plants in medical remedies and treatments. The manuscript is written in Spanish, containing only the Mayan plant names where necessary for identification.

Descriptive Information

Title
Sotuta A : manuscript, [between 1875 and 1900].
Call Number
C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 11)
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/7h149s633
Language
Spanish
Date Created
[between 1875 and 1900].
Format
Manuscript
Extent
13 leaves with old pagination (p. 1-25, [26]) : paper ; 31 x 21 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
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
26

Institutional Information

Collection
Mesoamerican Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/308a5a45-d656-4363-a052-ef6b2dbbf1ba/manifest