- Great Book of Maya Medicine, 1917.
- Format:
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- Manuscript
- Book
- Date:
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- 1917.
- Subject:
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- Mayas—Medicine
- Materia medica, Vegetable—Mexico—19th century
- Medicinal plants—Mexico—19th century
- Maya language—Texts
- Indigenous Studies
- View in catalog:
- Call number:
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- C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 12)
- Extent:
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- 2 v. (each v. is 40 leaves, [i-ii], 1-78; [i-ii], 79-155, [156]) : paper ; 23 x 17 cm.
- Description:
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- Imprint on cover: A.B.C. ... Apartado 350. Teléfono: Cia. Yucateca 520. Plaza Principal. Calle 63 número 504. Merida Yuc.
- Alternative:
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- Lombrises in Canil in Nah
- Spatial:
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- Mexico
- Relation:
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- Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s
- Text language:
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- Text in Yucatec with some Spanish.
- Binding note:
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- Paper wrappers; in cloth box.
- Provenance:
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- "Guillermo Gates Casa de James 63-490 Mérida Yuc" is written in pen on cover; "Ticul Diciembre 10 de 1917 Esta Copia Maya La hizo el Señor Francisco Mená" is written in pen on p. 155; later acquired 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:
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- Gift; Robert Garrett; 1949.
- Donor:
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- Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961
- Former owner:
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- Gates, William, 1863-1940
- Created:
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- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Abstract:
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- Manuscript copy of 285 numbered prescriptions/recipes for the use of plants in medical remedies and treatments. Written in two notebooks labeled "Libreta I and Libreta II." There are two different numbering systems, one written in pencil and the other in pen.
- Identifier:
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- ark:/88435/dc8049gh07p
- Location:
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- Special Collections C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 12)
- Exhibit Tags:
- Genre:
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- Formulas, recipes, etc.
- Manuscripts, Maya 20th century.
- Paper.
- manuscripts (documents)