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

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

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

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

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

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

4. 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.

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

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

6. Will of Matteo Eossibel, 1776 June 7.

Date:: 1776 June 7.
Text language:: Text in K'iche'.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

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

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

8. Will of Diego MaChaa, 1768 Mar. 12.

Date:: 1768 Mar. 12.
Text language:: Text in K'iche'.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

9. Zakicoxol : manuscript, [1800-1824?].

Date:: [1800-1824?].
Text language:: Text in K'iche' and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’Plays

10. Deed of sale for land : Ebtún, Mexico, [1869 Feb. 21].

Date:: [1869 Feb. 21].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec; with some Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

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

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

12. Noticia de varias plantas y sus virtudes : typescript, [19--].

Date:: [19--].
Text language:: Text in Spanish with some Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

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

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

14. Spanish-Tzutuhil dictionary and other texts: manuscript, [17--].

Date:: [17--].
Text language:: Texts in Tzutuhil and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: music

15. Choral music miscellany : manuscript, 1635.

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

16. Will of Franco Ernandes, 1776 May 11.

Date:: 1776 May 11.
Text language:: Text in K'iche'.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

17. Will, [17--].

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

18. Sermones en Quiché : manuscript, [16--].

Date:: [16--].
Text language:: Text in K'iche' and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

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

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

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

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

21. 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’

22. 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

23. Deed of sale for land : Ticul, Yucatán, [1798 Jan. 23].

Date:: [1798 Jan. 23].
Text language:: Text in Spanish with some Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

24. Document concerning the sale of lands, 1775 July 5.

Date:: 1775 July 5.
Text language:: Text in K'iche'.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

25. The Dresden Codex / reproduced from tracings of the original, colorings finished by hand, by William Gates.

Date:: 1932

26. Sermones : manuscript, [1700].

Date:: [1700].
Text language:: Text in Pokonchi.
Exhibit Tags:: Q’eqchi’

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

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

28. Doctrina en Quiché : manuscript, [1800].

Date:: [1800].
Text language:: Text in K'iche'.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

29. Doctrina en Quichè : manuscript, [187-?].

Date:: [187-?].
Text language:: Text in K'iche', Spanish, and Latin.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

30. Appellidos en Lengua Maya, Sacados de Documentos Publìcos del Departamento de Mérida, certificados por los Párrocos, [between 1800 and 1850].

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

31. [Essays]

Date:: 1525-1575
Text language:: Spanish;

32. 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

33. Will of Pablo Eohom, 1762 Nov. 29.

Date:: 1762 Nov. 29.
Text language:: Text in K'iche'.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

34. 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

35. 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’

36. Will of Sebastian Iboy, 1767 Feb. 1.

Date:: 1767 Feb. 1.
Text language:: Text in K'iche'.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

37. Will of Joseph Calan, 1773 May 26.

Date:: 1773 May 26.
Text language:: Text in K'iche'.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

38. Acuerdos sobre la manera de efectuar se el matrimonio : Palacio del Gobierno, Guatemala, 1883 Oct. 9.

Date:: 1883 Oct. 9.
Text language:: K'eq'chi and Spanish in parallel columns.

39. Explicacion de la doctrina christiana en lengua quecchi : manuscript, [1798].

Date:: [1798].
Text language:: K'eq'chi and Spanish in parallel columns.

40. Account audit of a Mayordomo, [1690, Dec. 4].

Date:: [1690, Dec. 4].
Text language:: Text in K'iche' and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

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

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

42. Land grant by Antonio Tog to Juan Belasco : Totonicapán, Guatemala, [1785 Aug. 30].

Date:: [1785 Aug. 30].
Text language:: Text in K'iche' and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

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

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

44. Tula documents, 1605-1630.

Date:: 1605-1630.
Text language:: Texts in Nahuatl and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: Nahuatl

45. Chirixc San Juan Evangelista : manuscript, [ca. 1700].

Date:: [ca. 1700].
Text language:: Text in Pokonchi.
Exhibit Tags:: Q’eqchi’

46. Caste War letter to Fernando Tun in Chan Chen, [1850, Feb. 22].

Date:: [1850, Feb. 22].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

47. Lienzo de San Pedro Ixcatlan, [between 1775 and 1850].

Date:: [between 1775 and 1850].
Text language:: Text in Nahuatl with some Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: Nahuatl Lienzo Maps

48. 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

49. Land sale by Maria Paz to Juan Belasco : Totonicapán, Guatemala, [1785 Aug.].

Date:: [1785 Aug.].
Text language:: Text in K'iche' and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

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

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

51. 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

52. Deed of sale for property by Francisco Santzin to Joseph Abilla : Totonicapán, Guatemala, [1707 Nov. 8].

Date:: [1707 Nov. 8].
Text language:: Text in K'iche' and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

53. Brujo calendar : manuscript, [1867].

Date:: [1867].
Text language:: Text in K'eq'chi, Spanish, and Latin.
Exhibit Tags:: music

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

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

55. Rosario and other texts : manuscript, [15--].

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

56. 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

57. Zakicoxol : manuscript, [18--].

Date:: [18--].
Text language:: Text in K'iche' and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’Plays

58. Contract Between Members of the Tus Family.

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

59. Vienna Dictionary fragment : manuscript, [between 1700 and 1750].

Date:: [between 1700 and 1750].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec with some Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

60. Will of Domingo Xetum, 1762 Apr. 20.

Date:: 1762 Apr. 20.
Text language:: Text in K'iche'.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

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

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

62. Theologia Indorum : manuscript, [1759].

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

63. Zakicoxol : manuscript, [18--].

Date:: [18--].
Text language:: Text in K'iche' and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’Plays

64. Maya translation of "Ramillete de Divinas Flores" : manuscript, [before 1810].

Date:: [before 1810].
Text language:: Text in Maya.

65. 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

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

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

67. Will of Gaspar Chun, 1762 Nov. 10.

Date:: 1762 Nov. 10.
Text language:: Text in K'iche'.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

68. 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

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

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

70. Theologia Indorum : manuscript, [16--].

Date:: [16--].
Text language:: Text in K'iche' and Latin.
Exhibit Tags:: Theologia Indorum K’iche’

71. Codex santorum novissime concessorum omnibus Hispaniarum invictissimo Regi Catholico subiectis, et vbique de gentibus : manuscript, 1751.

Date:: 1751.
Text language:: Latin.

72. 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.

73. Maya vessel, [6--?].

Date:: [6--?].
Exhibit Tags:: Object Glyph Ceramic

74. Codex Cozcatzin [manuscript copy] / Lic. Fausto Chimalpopoca Galicia...

Date:: 1572-1833
Exhibit Tags:: Nahuatl

75. Iulihii memoria titulo quetacque natirtaē ... : manuscript, 1565 Aug. 14.

Date:: 1565 Aug. 14.
Text language:: Text in K'eq'chi and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: Titulos Poqomchi’

76. Arte de la lenqua Pokonchí : manuscript, [between 1700 and 1750].

Date:: [between 1700 and 1750].
Text language:: Text in Pokonchi.
Exhibit Tags:: Poqomchi’

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

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

78. 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

79. 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

80. Deed of sale for land by Francisco Santzin to Miguel Belasco : Totonicapán, Guatemala, [1696 Jan. 6].

Date:: [1696 Jan. 6].
Text language:: Text in K'iche' and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

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

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

82. Maya conch shell, 761.

Date:: 761.
Exhibit Tags:: Object Shell Glyph

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

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

84. 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

85. Nabe Tihonic : manuscript, [1800].

Date:: [1800].
Text language:: Text in K'iche' with some Latin and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

86. 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

87. Tlaxcala legal documents, 1694-1843.

Date:: 1694-1843.
Text language:: Texts in Nahuatl and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: Nahuatl

88. Arte Quichè : manuscript, 1753.

Date:: 1753.
Text language:: Text in K'iche' and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’Kaqchikel Tz'utujil

89. 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

90. Catecismos pictóricos otomíes : manuscript, 1837.

Date:: 1837.
Text language:: Texts in Otomí and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: Otomí

91. Deed of sale for land from Juan Vicente Santiago : Momostenango, Guatemala, [1812 Oct. 29].

Date:: [1812 Oct. 29].
Text language:: Text in K'iche' and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

92. Traducese al Romance castellano, la Relación Mercuriana de la admirable Aparición de nuestra señora la Virgen Maria que esta en la lengua Mexicana Genuina : manuscript, 1709-1718.

Date:: 1709-1718.
Text language:: Texts in Spanish and Nahuatl.
Exhibit Tags:: Nahuatl Plays

93. Land sale by Velasco Xantzin, [1808 May 29].

Date:: [1808 May 29].
Text language:: Text in K'iche' and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

94. Will of Pedro Cuc, 1769 Sept. 4.

Date:: 1769 Sept. 4.
Text language:: Text in K'iche'.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

95. Sale of land for Pablo Tatul, 1787 Apr. 23.

Date:: 1787 Apr. 23.
Text language:: Text in K'iche'.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

96. Will of Martin Quexana, 1771 Apr. 16.

Date:: 1771 Apr. 16.
Text language:: Text in K'iche'.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

97. Diccionario grande de la lengua Tzotzil : manuscript, [19--].

Date:: [19--].
Text language:: Text in Tzotzil.
Exhibit Tags:: Tzotzil

98. Will of Sebastian Toh, 1776 Mar. 25.

Date:: 1776 Mar. 25.
Text language:: Text in K'iche'.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

99. Aztec map on deerskin, [15--].

Date:: [15--].
Text language:: Text in Nahuatl.
Exhibit Tags:: Nahuatl Maps

100. Breve Tratado de Doctrina Christiana puesto en lengua mexicana por Fr. N [ ] de la R. Observancia de N.S.P.S. Francisco para mayor entendimiento de aquellos que con Sancto fervor y apostolico amor se dedican a iluminar con los fulgores de la Fe, a los Naturales de este Nuevo Reyno [missing line] convento de S. Bernardina, Taxco, en el año 1774 : manuscript, 1774.

Date:: 1774.
Text language:: Texts in Spanish and Nahuatl.
Exhibit Tags:: Nahuatl

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