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Part 1 of Multi-Part Work
Chilam Balam Texts, [ca. 1850-1860].

Manuscript copy of several different manuscripts concerning the history of the conquest of Yucatan by the Spaniards (Chilam Balam of Chumayel), possibly written in the hand of a copyist working for Bishop Carrillo y Ancona in Mérida (Mexico); political history of the province of Ah Canul, second half of the 16th-century (Chilam Balam of Calkini); uses of plants for medical treatment (El Libro de los Medicos Yervateros de Yucatan); historical chronicle, katun prophecies, calendrical correlations and almanac (Chilam Balam of Tizimin); paraphrase in Maya of Old Testament (?); also medical texts (Chilam Balam of Ixil); and calendrical correlations and medical texts (Chilam Balam of Kaua). Numbered blank leaves at end of v. 1 (fol. 118-144), v. 2 (fol. 146-196). Ms. section headings written in Spanish.

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