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

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Date:

• [ca. 1850-1860].

Subject:

• Mayas—Antiquities
• Mayas—History
• Mayas—Religion
• Maya—Medicine
• Materia medica, Vegetable—Mexico—19th century
• Medicinal plants—Mexico—19th century
• Maya languages—Text
• Maya calendar
• Maya astronomy
• Calkiní (Mexico)—History
• Indigenous Studies

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9934782503506421

Call number:

• C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 5)

Extent:

• 2 v. (v. 1 is 144 leaves, v. 2 is 196 leaves) : paper, ill. ; 22 x 17 cm.

Description:

• Stationer's label pasted down on p. [2] of cover, v. 2.
• Spine title, v. 1: Maya: Medicina.
• Title supplied by William E. Gates.
• Decoration: illustrations in red pencil, black ink, and purple pencil.

Alternative:

• Yahau ah nohol u chun

Spatial:

• Mexico

Relation:

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

Text language:

• Text in Yucatec with some Spanish.

Binding note:

• Quarter calf binding and marbeled papers.

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:

• Carrillo y Ancona, Crescencio, 1837-1897
• Gates, William, 1863-1940

Created:

• 1850-01-01T00:00:00Z/1860-12-31T23:59:59Z

Abstract:

• Manuscript copy of several different manuscripts concerning the history of the conquest of Yucatan by the Spaniards (Chilam Balam of Chumayel), possibly written in the hand of a copyist working for Bishop Carrillo y Ancona in Mérida (Mexico); political history of the province of Ah Canul, second half of the 16th-century (Chilam Balam of Calkini); uses of plants for medical treatment (El Libro de los Medicos Yervateros de Yucatan); historical chronicle, katun prophecies, calendrical correlations and almanac (Chilam Balam of Tizimin); paraphrase in Maya of Old Testament (?); also medical texts (Chilam Balam of Ixil); and calendrical correlations and medical texts (Chilam Balam of Kaua). Numbered blank leaves at end of v. 1 (fol. 118-144), v. 2 (fol. 146-196). Ms. section headings written in Spanish.

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/dc5712mj05h

Location:

• Special Collections C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 5)

Contents:

• v. 1. Chilam Balam of Chumayel
• Chilam Balam of Calkini
• El Libro de los Medicos Yervateros de Yucatan
• v. 2. Chilam Balam of Tizimin
• Chilam Balam of Ixil
• Chilam Balam of Kaua.

Exhibit Tags:

• Chilam Balam
• Yucatec

Genre:

• Manuscripts, Maya 19th century.
• Paper.
• Calf bindings
• manuscripts (documents)