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

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Date:

• [between 1800 and 1850].

Subject:

• Mayas—Medicine
• Materia medica, Vegetable—Mexico—19th century
• Medicinal plants—Mexico—19th century
• Maya language—Texts
• Indigenous Studies

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9934783783506421

Call number:

• C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 8)

Extent:

• 1 item (7 leaves with old foliation, 33, 41-46) : paper ; 21 x 15.6 cm.

Description:

• Title supplied by William E. Gates.

Alternative:

• U Xinil Nohkak X Cantaci Kak Zaemuckak

Relation:

• Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s

Text language:

• Text in Yucatec with some Spanish.

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.

Donor:

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961

Former owner:

• Gates, William, 1863-1940

Created:

• 1800-01-01T00:00:00Z/1850-12-31T23:59:59Z

Abstract:

• Manuscript fragments concerning the medicinal uses of plants for curing specific diseases.

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/c821gn555

Location:

• Special Collections C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 8)

Exhibit Tags:

• Yucatec

Genre:

• Formulas, recipes, etc.
• Manuscripts, Maya 19th century.
• Paper.
• manuscripts (documents)