• Catecismoob Ti Le Metodistaoob compilado yetel publicado Tioklal Le Utuxtah..., [between 1875 and 1900].

Collections:
  • Mesoamerican Manuscripts
Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Date:
  • [between 1875 and 1900].
Subject:
Language:
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Call number:
  • C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 68)
Extent:
  • 1 v. (26 leaves) : paper ; 17 x 11 cm.
Description:
  • Title supplied by William E. Gates.
  • "68"--Label, written in pen on f. 1r.
  • "Catecismo en Maya - Methodist"--Written in pen on cover.
Alternative:
  • Conosimiento y virtudes de las yerbas Yucatecas
  • Catecismo en Maya - Methodist
Spatial:
  • Mexico
Relation:
  • Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s
Text language:
  • Text in Spanish and Yucatec.
Binding note:
  • Bound in a fragment of a folder with the monogram of the American Art Association; in cloth box.
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:
  • 1875-01-01T00:00:00Z/1900-12-31T23:59:59Z
Abstract:
  • Manuscript written in an unidentified hand, probably dating to the late 19th-century, apparently a catechism in Maya for Methodists. The Maya title says it is to be used in the family and schools. Includes a catechism with questions first in Spanish then in Mayan-Yucatec (p. 3-14); p. 15-20 are blank; extracts from a medical botanical ms. with the heading "Conosimiento y virtudes de las yerbas Yucatecas estractadas del manuscripto que dejo D. Richardo Osada -- alias el Judio" (p. 21-51); p. 52 is blank. Leaves are unnumbered.
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/dc0c483w43p
Location:
  • Special Collections C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 68)
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Range label:
  • Logical
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