• Teabo register : manuscript, [1839-1851].

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Date:

• [1839-1851].

Subject:

• Registers of births, etc—Mexico—Teabo—19th century
• Maya language—Texts
• Teabo (Mexico)—History—19th century—Sources
• Indigenous Studies

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9935203753506421

Call number:

• C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 70b)

Extent:

• 1 volume (8 leaves) : paper ; 15.2 x 10.3 cm

Spatial:

• Mexico

Relation:

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

Text language:

• Text in Yucatec.

Binding note:

• Disbound quire of 8 leaves.

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:

• 1839-01-01T00:00:00Z/1851-12-31T23:59:59Z

Abstract:

• A record of births, baptisms, and deaths at Teabo, Yucatán. The earliest date is a baptism in 1839, the latest seems to be an entry in 1891 for a member of the Nah family. These documents were composed in the Maya town of Teabo.

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/dck0698k775

Location:

• Special Collections C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 70b)

Exhibit Tags:

• Yucatec

Genre:

• blotters (bookkeeping records)
• papers (documents)
• History.
• Sources.
• Texts.
• Leather bindings
• manuscripts (documents)