Item Summary

Pages 1-29 contain prayers in Yucatec-Maya. Page 30 is a register of deaths, etc. in Teabo, Yucatàn, and has the date October 4, 1855. Pages 31-38 contain Latin hymns, beginning with a setting of Psalm 113 ("Sit nomen Domini/Laudate pueri Dominum/laudate nomen Domini/Sit nomen Domini benedictum ex hoc nunc...). The manuscript was likely composed in Teabo as there are death records in the manuscript from the town.

Descriptive Information

Title
Yucatec prayers : manuscript, [1855].
Call Number
C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 71)
Identifier
https://library.princeton.edu/mssimages/garrett-gates%20mesoamerican/garrettgatesmeso71-f1r.jpg
Language
Mayan languages
Date Created
[1855].
Format
Manuscript
Extent
1 v. (20 leaves) : paper ; 16 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
No Known Copyright
Binding Note
Heavy leather wrapper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Mayas—Religion
Registers of births, etc—Mexico—Teabo—19th century
Maya language—Texts
Teabo (Mexico)—History—19th century—Sources
Indigenous Studies

Physical Characteristics

File Count
44

Institutional Information

Collection
Mesoamerican Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ee2fa074-1d51-41dc-aee7-58f77056a26e/manifest