Bibliography

Collection Background

Basler, Teresa T, and David Wright. “The Making of a Collection: Mesoamerican Manuscripts at Princeton University.” Libraries & the Cultural Record 43, no. 1 (2008): 29-55. https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2008.0011.

Princeton University Library Chronicle

The Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity Library Chron­i­cle is the best intro­duc­tion to the his­tory and holdings of Princeton University Library's Spe­cial Col­lec­tions. The Chron­i­cle is available as an open access title in JSTOR. For Mesoamerican-related articles, see:

Anon. “An Otomi Catechism at Princeton.” The Princeton University Library Chronicle 30, no. 1 (1968): 53–54. https://doi.org/10.2307/26403739.

Benson, Elizabeth P. “The Quipu: ‘Written’ Texts in Ancient Peru.” The Princeton University Library Chronicle37, no. 1 (1975): 11–23. https://doi.org/10.2307/26403946.

Burkhart, Louise M. “A Nahuatl Religious Drama from Sixteenth-Century Mexico.” The Princeton University Library Chronicle 53, no. 3 (1992): 264–86. https://doi.org/10.2307/26403767.

Bush, Alfred L. “How Empty Shelves in Firestone Ultimately Revealed America’s Earliest Book.” The Princeton University Library Chronicle 80, no. 1 (2023): 82–105. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48815335.

Bush, Alfred L. “Cover Note [Maya Conch Shell].” The Princeton University Library Chronicle 53, no. 3 (1992): 345–48. https://doi.org/10.2307/26403776.

Bush, Alfred L. and Griffen, Gillett G. “Ancient America: Five Centuries of Discovery: An Exhibition in the Princeton University Library.” The Princeton University Library Chronicle26, no. 2 (1965): 1–6. https://doi.org/10.2307/26409670.

Edmonton, Munro S. “The Princeton Codex of ‘The Book of the Chilam Balam of Chumayel.’” The Princeton University Library Chronicle 32, no. 3 (1971): 137–42. https://doi.org/10.2307/26409906.

Garrett, Robert. “Recollections of a Collector.” The Princeton University Library Chronicle 10, no. 3 (1949): 103–16. https://doi.org/10.2307/26400586.

Marks, Patricia H. “An Exhibition of Maya Literature.” The Princeton University Library Chronicle 54, no. 1 (1992): 64–66. https://doi.org/10.2307/26410292.

Miller, Jeffrey H. “The Princeton Codex of the Book of Chilam Balam of Nah.” The Princeton University Library Chronicle 53, no. 3 (1992): 287–96. https://doi.org/10.2307/26403768.

Pohl, John M. D. and Serrano, Javier Urcid. “A Zapotec Carved Bone.” The Princeton University Library Chronicle 67, no. 2 (2006): 225–36. https://doi.org/10.25290/prinunivlibrchro.67.2.0225.

Preston, Richard. “America’s Egypt: John Lloyd Stephens and the Discovery of the Maya.” The Princeton University Library Chronicle 53, no. 3 (1992): 243–63. https://doi.org/10.2307/26403766.

Schneider, Elena A. “Testerian Hieroglyphs: Language, Colonization, and Conversion in Colonial Mexico.” The Princeton University Library Chronicle 69, no. 1 (2007): 9–42. https://doi.org/10.25290/prinunivlibrchro.69.1.0009.

Stuart, George E. “The Princeton Manuscript of the Codex Pérez.” The Princeton University Library Chronicle 53, no. 3 (1992): 297–309. https://doi.org/10.2307/26403769.