• Maya Medical and Botanical Texts, [between 1875 and 1900].

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Date:

• [between 1875 and 1900].

Subject:

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

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9934806673506421

Call number:

• C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 13)

Extent:

• 1 v. (55 leaves, paginated as 2-59, 74, 93-94) : paper ; 22 x 16 cm.

Spatial:

• Mexico

Relation:

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

Text language:

• Text in Yucatec; with some Spanish.

Binding note:

• 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:

• Medical-Botanical manuscript containing 324 prescriptions/recipes for the use of plants in medical remedies and treatments. Each recipe/prescription is numbered (in a modern hand) in black ink preceding the heading (name of the disease), for example "46. Bobote kaak." Diseases are grouped by type, for example f. 9-10 are devoted to different types of "kaak" "Viruela (smallpox)."

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/dc7d2794666

Location:

• Special Collections C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 13)

Exhibit Tags:

• Yucatec

Genre:

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