• Liturgical collection : manuscript, [1798].

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Date:

• [1798].

Subject:

• Catechisms, Maya
• Maya language—Texts
• Indigenous Studies

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9935200703506421

Call number:

• C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 73a)

Extent:

• 1 v. (24 leaves) : paper ; 15 x 10 cm.

Relation:

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

Text language:

• Texts in Latin and Yucatec.

Binding note:

• Leather wrapper, with traces of leather end ties.

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:

• 1798-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abstract:

• Liturgical collection containing antiphons, lessons, psalms, and other texts. Latin text begins "Ad matutinum invitatorium. Rege cui omnia vivunt..." The year 1798 is written on p. 44. The signature of José Balthazar Montejo on p. 42.

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/dcjw827p98j

Location:

• Special Collections C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 73a)

Exhibit Tags:

• Yucatec

Genre:

• Paper.
• Leather bindings
• manuscripts (documents)