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

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

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

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

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. Titulos primordiales de la Hacienda de Buena Vista (alias La Archicofradía) : manuscripts, 1672-1777.

Date:: 1672-1777.
Exhibit Tags:: Titulos Maps

7. Deed of sale for land to Bicente Can : Totonicapán, Guatemala, [1797 May 12].

Date:: [1797 May 12].
Text language:: Text in K'iche' and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

8. Lienzo Córdova-Castellanos : manuscript, [between 1900 and 1912].

Date:: [between 1900 and 1912].
Text language:: Text in Zapotec.
Exhibit Tags:: Zapotec Lienzo Maps

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

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

10. 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’

11. Will of Sebastian Gotierres, 1768 May 14.

Date:: 1768 May 14.
Text language:: Text in K'iche'.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

12. Will of Micaela Ahanel, 1766 May 12.

Date:: 1766 May 12.
Text language:: Text in K'iche'.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

13. Will of Josepha Lucas, 1768 Feb. 11.

Date:: 1768 Feb. 11.
Text language:: Text in K'iche'.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

14. Will of Gaspar Pan Ean, 1777 Mar. 13.

Date:: 1777 Mar. 13.
Text language:: Text in K'iche'.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

15. Will of Manuel Xpatta[e], 1766 May 12.

Date:: 1766 May 12.
Text language:: Text in K'iche'.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

16. Will of Gaspar Alvaro, 1770 Nov. 23.

Date:: 1770 Nov. 23.
Text language:: Text in K'iche'.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

17. Will of Pablo Eacoh, 1770 Sept. 26.

Date:: 1770 Sept. 26.
Text language:: Text in K'iche'.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

18. Will of Jacinto Basques, 1768 Jan. 30.

Date:: 1768 Jan. 30.
Text language:: Text in K'iche'.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

19. Will of Matteo Eossibel, 1776 June 7.

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

20. Will of Domingo Ernan, 1768 Feb. 11.

Date:: 1768 Feb. 11.
Text language:: Text in K'iche'.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

21. Brujo calendar : manuscript, [1867].

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

22. Titulos primordiales de la Hacienda de Buena Vista (alias La Archicofradía) : manuscripts, 1672-1777.

Date:: 1672-1777.
Exhibit Tags:: Titulos

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

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

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

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

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

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

26. 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

27. 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

28. Fragment of a Spanish-K'ich'e dictionary : manuscript, [17--].

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

29. Land grant to Juan Basquez Sik' : Totonicapán, Guatemala, [1779 Oct. 4].

Date:: [1779 Oct. 4].
Text language:: Text in K'iche' and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

30. 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

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

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

32. Teabo register : manuscript, [1839-1851].

Date:: [1839-1851].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

33. 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’

34. Land grant to Ramon Gutierez Ean : Totonicapán, Guatemala, [1778 Sept.].

Date:: [1778 Sept.].
Text language:: Text in K'iche' and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

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

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

36. 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

37. Deed of sale for land from Christoval Perez to Bicente Q'an : Totonicapán, Guatemala, [1797 Dec. 25].

Date:: [1797 Dec. 25].
Text language:: Text in K'iche' and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

38. 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

39. De Pasione : manuscript, [ca. 1800].

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

40. Will of Ysabel Xq'aqui, [1689, May 8].

Date:: [1689, May 8].
Text language:: Text in K'iche' and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

45. 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

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

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

47. Deed of sale for land to Gaspar Aac of Cuncunul : Ebtún, Mexico, [1665 Aug. 2].

Date:: [1665 Aug. 2].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec with some Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: Yucatec

48. Will of Francisca Ramos, [1695 Nov. 25].

Date:: [1695 Nov. 25].
Text language:: Text in K'iche' and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

49. Nahuatl Sermons and the play "Holy Wednesday" : manuscript, [1590].

Date:: [1590].
Text language:: Text in Nahuatl, Spanish, and Latin.
Exhibit Tags:: Nahuatl Plays

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

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

51. 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

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

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

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

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

54. Deed of sale for land by Ramon Gutieres to Antonio Pax : Totonicapán, Guatemala, [1762 Aug. 27].

Date:: [1762 Aug. 27].
Text language:: Text in K'iche' and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

55. 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’

56. Land grant to Pedro Baquiax : Totonicapán, Guatemala, [1773 Dec. 11].

Date:: [1773 Dec. 11].
Text language:: Text in K'iche' and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

57. 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’

58. Hieroglyphic text.

Exhibit Tags:: Glyph

59. Document concerning the boundaries of certain districts, 1777 Feb. 27.

Date:: 1777 Feb. 27.
Text language:: Text in K'iche'.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

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

Date:: 1572-1833
Exhibit Tags:: Nahuatl

61. Land grant to Ysabel Xchak'chal, wife of Francisco Lopez Cutz : Totonicapán, Guatemala, [1766 Oct. 17].

Date:: [1766 Oct. 17].
Text language:: Text in K'iche' and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

62. Tributes of Tzintzuntzan and Tlalpujava : manuscript, 1542-1552.

Date:: 1542-1552.
Text language:: Text in Otomí and Spanish.

63. Codex Pérez : manuscript, [1877].

Date:: [1877].
Text language:: Text in Yucatec with some Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: Chilam Balam Yucatec

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

Date:: [1890-1910?].

65. 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

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

Date:: 1932

67. Catecismos pictóricos otomíes : manuscript, 1837.

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

68. 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

69. 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

70. Maya conch shell, 761.

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

71. Will of Miguel Tavico, 1772 June 1.

Date:: 1772 June 1.
Text language:: Text in K'iche'.
Exhibit Tags:: K’iche’

72. Mexican Indian land transfers, 1602-1849.

Date:: 1602-1849.
Text language:: Texts in Nahuatl and Spanish.
Exhibit Tags:: Nahuatl

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

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

74. 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

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

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

76. 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’

77. 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

78. 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.

79. 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

80. 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

81. 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

82. 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

83. 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

84. 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

85. 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

86. 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

87. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

92. 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

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

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

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

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

95. 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

96. 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

97. 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.

98. 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

99. 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

100. 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

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