Item Summary

Contains prayers in Yucatec-Maya, Spanish, and Latin. Contains devotional verses and songs in Yucatec-Maya and Spanish and a register of deaths (place unknown) written primarily in Spanish. Page 11 is dated August 8, 1882 and p. 74 is dated Tekom, October 18, 1851. There is a death entry for Tekom and also a mention about the bishop of Chichimilia; hence, the manuscript probably originated in Tekom or Chichimilia, which is only a few miles away from Chichimilia.

Descriptive Information

Title
Yucatec prayers : manuscript, [between 1851 and 1882].
Call Number
C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 72)
Identifier
https://library.princeton.edu/mssimages/garrett-gates%20mesoamerican/garrettgatesmeso72-f1r.jpg
Language
Mayan languages
Date Created
[between 1851 and 1882].
Format
Manuscript
Extent
1 v. (64 leaves) : paper ; 15 x 10 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
Binding Note
Heavy leather wrapper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Mayas—Religion
Maya language—Texts
Indigenous Studies

Physical Characteristics

File Count
134

Institutional Information

Collection
Mesoamerican Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/16b11682-b4be-4d44-a49d-fb4eb17492fe/manifest