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

Collections:

• Mesoamerican Manuscripts

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Date:

• [19--].

Subject:

• Materia medica, Vegetable—Mexico—19th century
• Medicinal plants—Mexico—19th century
• Maya languages—Texts
• Unbound sheets (Binding)—20th century

Language:

• Spanish; Castilian

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9934808633506421

Call number:

• C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 67)

Extent:

• 1 v. (9 leaves) ; 28 x 21 cm.

Alternative:

• Notes on various plants and their efficacies

Spatial:

• Mexico

Relation:

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

Text language:

• Text in Spanish with some Yucatec.

Binding note:

• Unbound sheets in folder.

Provenance:

• "Copia de un ms. eu poder de Don Pedro Regil Merida Sep[tie]mbre 1868, Dr. C.H. Berendt (Popal y escritura de [blank] de este siglo," written in pen on title page. "Regil ms. #32," written in pen on cover and later crossed out and replaced with "67," written in pencil; 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:

• 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abstract:

• 20th-cent. typescript copy of 1868 transcription of an earlier document. Concerns prescriptions/recipes for the use of plants in medical remedies and treatments. Typed in red and black with text on recto only.

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/dc44558r33s

Location:

• Special Collections C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 67)

Edm rights:

• No Known Copyright

Range label:

• Logical

Available online:

• library.princeton.edu