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Mesoamerican Manuscripts at Princeton is a digital portal that provides access to nearly 300 manuscripts, documents, and artifacts spanning twelve centuries of recorded history. Some 15 languages are represented with particular strengths in K’iche’, Yucatec, and Nahuatl. For a history and description of the collections, see the About section.

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1. Proclama en lengua Sotzil : manuscript, [19--].

Date:: [19--].
Text language:: Tzotzil and Spanish on opposite pages.
Exhibit Tags:: Tzotzil

2. Orthografia en lengua Eêcchî, traducida por José Domingo Coy, en la Ciudad de Cobán año 1870 : manuscript, 1870.

Date:: 1870.
Text language:: Text in K'eq'chi with some Spanish.

3. Maya painted bowl, [between 700 and 899].

Date:: [between 700 and 899].
Exhibit Tags:: Object Glyph Ceramic

4. Hacienda de Santa Barbara (Tlaxcala, Mexico) records, 1553-1802

Date:: 1553-1802.
Exhibit Tags:: Nahuatl

5. Chilam Balam Texts, [ca. 1850-1860].

Date:: [ca. 1850-1860].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec with some Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: Chilam Balam Yucatec

6. Kekchi documentos : Guatemala, [ca. 1540].

Date:: [ca. 1540].
Text language:: Text in K'eq'chi and Spanish.

7. Book of the Chilam Balam of Chumayel, [between 1775 and 1800].

Date:: [between 1775 and 1800].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec with some Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: Chilam Balam Yucatec

8. Deed of sale for land : Kanxoc, Yucatán, [1811 Oct. 16].

Date:: [1811 Oct. 16].
Text language:: In Yucatec; with some Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

9. Recognition of a sale of land : Mexico, [1802-1814].

Date:: [1802-1814].
Text language:: Text in Spanish with some Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

10. Deed of sale for land : Maxcanú, Yucatán, [1851 June 19].

Date:: [1851 June 19].
Text language:: Text in Spanish; with some Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

11. Deed of sale for land : Dzitnup, Yucatán, [1798].

Date:: [1798].
Text language:: Text in Spanish with some Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

12. Deed of sale for land : Valladolid, Yucatàn, [1824 Oct. 19].

Date:: [1824 Oct. 19].
Text language:: Text in Spanish; with some Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

13. Deed of sale for land : Calotmul, Yucatan, [1827 Apr. 30].

Date:: [1827 Apr. 30].
Text language:: Text in Spanish; with some Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

14. Deed of sale for land : Ticul, Yucatán, [1789 Jan. 23].

Date:: [1789 Jan. 23].
Text language:: Text in Spanish with some Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

15. Contract Between Members of the Tus Family.

Date:: 1811-1823
Text language:: Yucatec and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

16. Maya Medical and Botanical Texts, [between 1875 and 1900].

Date:: [between 1875 and 1900].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec; with some Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

17. Deed of sale for land by Diego Ton : Mexico, [1750].

Date:: [1750].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

18. Deed of sale for land by Joseph and Juan Chi : Ticul, Mexico, [1712 Mar. 13].

Date:: [1712 Mar. 13].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

19. Codex cuara, [16--?].

Date:: [16--?].
Text language:: Text in Tarascan.
Exhibit Tags:: Tarascan

20. Mexican Indian Pictorial Manuscript, [1890-1910?].

Date:: [1890-1910?].

21. Codex Aubin : manuscript, [between 1775 and 1825].

Date:: [between 1775 and 1825].
Text language:: Texts in Nahuatl and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: Nahuatl

22. Bocabulario del idioma Alta Verapaz : manuscript, [18--?].

Date:: [18--?].
Text language:: Text in K'eq'chi and Spanish.

23. Ordínanzas de la Confradía de Ssmo Sacramento : manuscript, [17--].

Date:: [17--].
Text language:: Text in K'iche'.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

24. Probanca executorio : manuscript, [between 1600 and 1650].

Date:: [between 1600 and 1650].
Text language:: Text in K'ich'e.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

25. Will of Juan Uicab, [1804, Oct. 11].

Date:: [1804, Oct. 11].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec; with some Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

26. Deed of sale for land : Mexico, [1768 May 16].

Date:: [1768 May 16].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec; with some Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

27. Teologia Indorum : manuscript, [15--].

Date:: [15--].
Text language:: Text in K'iche' and Latin.
Exhibit Tags:: Theologia Indorum K’iche’

28. Bocabulario : manuscript, [1726-1727].

Date:: [1726-1727].
Text language:: K'iche' and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

29. Libro de confradía de San Nicolás : manuscript, 1663-1852

Date:: 1663-1852.
Text language:: Text in K'iche' with some Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

30. Ritual of the bacabs : manuscript, [between 1775 and 1800].

Date:: [between 1775 and 1800].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

31. Maya Fragments - Medicinal Plants : manuscript, [between 1800 and 1850].

Date:: [between 1800 and 1850].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec with some Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

32. Titulos de los señores del Reino del Quichè : manuscript, [1501-1781?].

Date:: [1501-1781?].
Text language:: Texts in K'iche' and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: Titulos K’iche’

33. Sotuta A : manuscript, [between 1875 and 1900].

Date:: [between 1875 and 1900].
Text language:: Texts in Spanish, with some Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

34. Deed of sale for land : Ticul (Mexico) [23 January 1789].

Date:: [23 January 1789].
Text language:: In Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

35. Deed of sale for land : Mani, Yucatan, [1817 Dec. 15].

Date:: [1817 Dec. 15].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec; with some Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

36. Land document : Ebtún, Mexico, [1721].

Date:: [1721].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec; with some Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

37. Deed of sale for land : Chemax, Yucatàn, [1835, July 4].

Date:: [1835, July 4].
Text language:: Text in Spanish with some Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

38. Declaration of land : Valladolid, Yucatàn, [1824 Oct. 9].

Date:: [1824 Oct. 9].
Text language:: Text in Spanish with some Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

39. Land document : Ebtún, Mexico, [18--?].

Date:: [18--?].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec with some Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

40. Caste War letter, [1850, Jan. 7].

Date:: [1850, Jan. 7].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

41. Conquista del Reyno de la Nueva Galicia en la America Septentrional, fundacion de su Capital Ciudad de Goadalaxara sus progresos militares y politicos y breve descripcion de los Reynos de la Nueva Viscaya, Nueva Toledo, o Nayarit, Nueva Estre maduram o Coahuila, Nuevas Philipinas, o Texas, Nuevo Reino de Leon, Nueva Andalucia, o Sonora, y Sinaloa, con noticias de la Ysla de la California por comprehenderse unos de d[ic]hos Reinos en el Ob[is]p[a]do de d[ic]ha cuidad, yotros en el districto de su R[eal] Au[dienci]a por el Lic[encia]do Dr. Mathias de la Mota Padilla natural de d[ic]ha cuidad de Goadalazara, Alguacil mayor de el Santo Officio, y actual Abogado Fiscal de d[ic]ha R[eal] Audiencia. Año de 1742 : manuscript, 1742.

Date:: 1742.
Text language:: Text in Spanish with some Latin.

42. Caste War letter from Ignacio Pomol to Francisco Puc in Chan Chen, [1850, Feb. 28].

Date:: [1850, Feb. 28].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

43. Deed from Ignacio Guerrero of Valladolid for a paraje called Xluch sold to Joseph Gomez : Yucatán, [1766 Dec. 7].

Date:: [1766 Dec. 7].
Text language:: Text in Spanish; with some Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

44. Caste War letter from Manuel Batun, Juan Kauil, and Novento Che to Marselino Pas, priest in Tihosuco, [1848 Aug. 22].

Date:: [1848 Aug. 22].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

45. Caste War letter from Jose Rufino Chan to Capt. D. Tomas Sum in Xcaium, [1850, Feb. 28].

Date:: [1850, Feb. 28].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

46. Caste War letter from Jacinto Pat to Jose Munigo Vasquez, [1848 Oct. 24].

Date:: [1848 Oct. 24].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

47. Caste War letter from Francisco Cob [Cab?] to Marselino Pas, priest in Tihosuco, [ca. 1848].

Date:: [ca. 1848].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

48. Caste War letter from B. P. to Jose Maria Berganza in Tixcacalcupul, [1849 Oct. 30].

Date:: [1849 Oct. 30].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

49. Caste War letter from Captain Sebastian Tus and Clemente Coba to Jose Gregorio Gala, Antonio Garsia, and Nicholas Baeza, [1849 Nov. 26].

Date:: [1849 Nov. 26].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

50. Caste War letter from Reynundo Chi to Jose N. Baesa in Tixcacalcupul, [1849 Nov. 22].

Date:: [1849 Nov. 22].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

51. Caste War letter from Jose Albino May to Gobernador D. Florentino Chan in Yumchen, [1850, Feb. 25].

Date:: [1850, Feb. 25].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

52. Caste War letter : from Jose Albino May to Gobernador D. Florentino Chan in Yumchen, [1850, Feb. 24].

Date:: [1850, Feb. 24].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

53. Caste War letter from Florentino Chan and Benancio Pec to Jose Antonio Garcia in Valladolid, [1849 Nov. 29].

Date:: [1849 Nov. 29].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

54. Caste War letter from Captain Sebastian Tus and Captain Isidoro Tus to Jose Gregorio Gala, Antonio Garsia, and Jose N. Baeza : Cancunul, Yucatán, [1849 Nov. 26].

Date:: [1849 Nov. 26].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

55. Caste War letter from Juan Pio Poot to Jose Gregorio Gala, Antonio Garcia, and Nicolas Ballesa [sic] in Valladolid, [ca. 1849].

Date:: [ca. 1849].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

56. Caste War letter from Florentino Chan and Benancio Pec to Jose Antonio Garcia in Valladolid, [1849 Dec. 5].

Date:: [1849 Dec. 5].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

57. Caste War letter from Benancio Pec to Jose Antonio Garcia in Valladolid : Cruz Chen, [1850 Jan. 24].

Date:: [1850 Jan. 24].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

58. Caste War letter from Juan Carlos Tun to Comandante Norcisco Gomes in Chichimilà, [1850 Jan. 2].

Date:: [1850 Jan. 2].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

59. Caste War letter from Jose Alvino May to Miguel Huchim and an order by Florentino Chan, [1850 Feb. 13].

Date:: [1850 Feb. 13].
Text language:: Text in Spanish.

60. Caste War letter from Paulino Pech to Gobernador Florentino Chan at the Rancho X-Cruz Chen, [1850 Jan. 26].

Date:: [1850 Jan. 26].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

61. Book of the Chilam Balam of Kaua : manuscript, [ca. 1824].

Date:: [ca. 1824].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec with some Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: Chilam Balam Yucatec

62. Sermones : manuscript, [between 1600 and 1625].

Date:: [between 1600 and 1625].
Text language:: Text in Pokonchi.
Exhibit Tags:: Pokonchí

63. Theologia Indorum : manuscript, [15--].

Date:: [15--].
Text language:: Text in K'iche', Kaqchikel and Tzutuhil.
Exhibit Tags:: Theologia Indorum

64. Prescriptions : manuscript, [18--?].

Date:: [18--?].
Text language:: Text in Spanish and Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

65. Sotuta B : manuscript, [between 1900 and 1925].

Date:: [between 1900 and 1925].
Text language:: Text in Spanish; with some Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

66. Catecismo pictórico Otomí : manuscript, [between 1775 and 1825].

Date:: [between 1775 and 1825].
Text language:: Texts in Otomí and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: Otomí

67. Book of the Chilam Balam of Nah : manuscript, [1857-1896]

Date:: [1857-1896]
Text language:: Text in Yucatec with some Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: Chilam Balam Yucatec

68. Book of the Chilam Balam of Calkini : manuscript, [ca. 1821].

Date:: [ca. 1821].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Chilam Balam Yucatec

69. Title of the Tamub : manuscript, [1812 Sept. 2].

Date:: [1812 Sept. 2].
Text language:: Text in K'iche'.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

70. Diccionario y dialogos Castellano y Chinanteca : manuscript, 1860 Apr. 2.

Date:: 1860 Apr. 2.
Text language:: Text in Chinantec and Spanish.

71. Estado actual del catholicismo, politicas, y economias de los Yndios ô Natura del Peru, y medios de reformarlo / escrito por Don Juan del Hoyo : examinador sinodal del Arzobispado de Lima, vicario ecleciastico de la provincia de Tarma, comisario del Santo Oficio de la Inquisicion, y Cura proprio de Chacayan en este Arzp. Año de 1772 : añadidas algunas breves notas : manuscript, 1772.

Date:: 1772.
Text language:: Text in Spanish.

72. Padre Nuestro : manuscript, 1915.

Date:: 1915.
Text language:: Text in K'eq'chi with some Spanish.

73. Caste War letter from Benancio Puc to Jose Maria Chan, Juan Bautista Tun, and Remihio Hau, [1850].

Date:: [1850].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

74. Maya glyph on shell, [between 600 and 799].

Date:: [between 600 and 799].
Text language:: Text in Maya.
Exhibit Tags:: Glyph Object Shell

75. Survey of the Tontzimin tract : Ebtún, Mexico, [1820?].

Date:: [1820?].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec with some Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: Maps

76. Land deeds of Bibiano Tuz, [1824-1825].

Date:: [1824-1825].
Text language:: Text in Spanish; with some Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

77. Deed of sale for land : Yucatán, [1828 Mar. 15].

Date:: [1828 Mar. 15].
Text language:: Text in Spanish with some Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

78. Choral music miscellany : manuscript, 1635

Date:: 1635.
Text language:: Text in Spanish, Latin, and Nahuatl.
Exhibit Tags:: Nahuatl music

79. Mapa de Cuauhtlantzinco : manuscript, [1855].

Date:: [1855].
Text language:: Text in Nahuatl.
Exhibit Tags:: Nahuatl Maps

80. Zapotec text on bone

Text language:: Text in Zapotec.
Exhibit Tags:: Zapotec

81. Zakicoxol : manuscript, [1800 or 1802 Sept. 20].

Date:: [1800 or 1802 Sept. 20].
Text language:: Text in K'iche' and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’Plays

82. Vocabularios de los idiomas Chiorti y Pocomane : manuscript, 1892.

Date:: 1892.
Text language:: Text in Chorti and Pokomam.
Exhibit Tags:: Pokomam

83. Caste War letter from Ignacio Pomol to Comandante Teodocio Ku in Santa Maria, [1850, Feb. 27].

Date:: [1850, Feb. 27].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

84. Title to land : Valladolid, Yucatán, [1789 Oct. 9].

Date:: [1789 Oct. 9].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec with some Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

85. Caste War letter from Jose Albino May to Comandante Francisco Puc in Chan Chen, [ca. 1850].

Date:: [ca. 1850].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

86. Will of Manuela Uicab, widow of Vicente Dzul : Maxcanú, Yucatán, [1870 May 10].

Date:: [1870 May 10].
Text language:: Text in Spanish; with some Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

87. Maya sermons : manuscript, [17--].

Date:: [17--].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec with some Latin and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

88. Caste War letter from Captain Augustin Yama to Marselino Pas, priest in Tihosuco, [1848 Oct. 24].

Date:: [1848 Oct. 24].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

89. Dominican miscellany in K'iche' and Spanish : manuscript, [between 1700 and 1750].

Date:: [between 1700 and 1750].
Text language:: Text in K'iche' and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

90. Doctrine and confession : manuscript, [17--].

Date:: [17--].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec with some Latin and Spanish.

91. Bocabulario [sic] por Dr. Julio Herrera : manuscript, [1867].

Date:: [1867].
Text language:: Text in K'iche' and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

92. Transcriptions of legal documents concerning the land and property of Domingo Matias Sateliz of Guatemala, [1750-1774].

Date:: 1750-1774
Text language:: Text in K'iche' and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

93. Title to land : Ebtún, Mexico, [1561 Apr. 21].

Date:: [1561 Apr. 21].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec; with some Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

94. Tecamachalco legal documents, [1557-1594].

Date:: [1557-1594].
Text language:: Texts in Nahuatl and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: Nahuatl

95. Teologia Indorum : manuscript, [1759].

Date:: [1759].
Text language:: Text in K'iche' and Latin.
Exhibit Tags:: Theologia Indorum K’iche’

96. Quichè phrase book fragment : manuscript, [1892-1900].

Date:: [1892-1900].
Text language:: Written in two columns, Spanish ("En castellano") left; and K'iche', right.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

97. Ordínanzas de la confradía de Santa Vera Cruz en Totonicapán : manuscript, [17--].

Date:: [17--].
Text language:: Text in K'iche' with Spanish translation (in successive paragraphs).
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

98. Instructions de timir anil y tinta : manuscript, 1836 June 6.

Date:: 1836 June 6.
Text language:: Text in K'iche' and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

99. Bocabularia en lengua Quiche y Castellana : manuscript, [17--].

Date:: [17--].
Text language:: Text in K'iche' and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

100. Abecedario en la lengua que dizen qiche hecho por Mr. Francisco Barrera que han solamente se conpone de el Modo y realidad con que los Judios la Ablan el qual Notiene los Significados que tienen los latinos pero aprendiendo en el lai pronunciaciones lesera Muy facil el saberla Muy bien y con toda brebedad, y este dicho Abecedario lo hize Segun lo que alcanzo a peticion de MR. fr. Gabriel Guerrero se q[ ] en este año de 1745. Fr. Alberto Míguez : manuscript, [1745].

Date:: [1745].
Text language:: Text in K'iche' and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

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