• Prescriptions : manuscript, [18--?].

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Date:

• [18--?].

Subject:

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

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9934783733506421

Call number:

• C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 7)

Extent:

• 2 leaves : paper ; 21.5 x 15.5 cm.

Alternative:

• Ahito Pysipuluakil

Spatial:

• Mexico

Relation:

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

Text language:

• Text in Spanish and Yucatec.

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:

• 1800-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abstract:

• Manuscript concerning specifications of plants used and the manner of their preparation for cures for Ahito, almorranas, azma, ardores de inflamacion, de la orina, y de aradoes (p. 1); maxcay, tacam, x chac mulal kak (p. 2); and para azma (p. 3). Verso of second leaf (p. 4) is blank.

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/dccr56nc00m

Location:

• Special Collections C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 7)

Exhibit Tags:

• Yucatec

Genre:

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