• Vienna Dictionary fragment : manuscript, [between 1700 and 1750].

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Date:

• [between 1700 and 1750].

Subject:

• Maya languages—Dictionaries—Spanish

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9934783323506421

Call number:

• C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 64)

Extent:

• 1 leaf: paper ; 21 x 16 cm.

Type:

• Dictionaries

Alternative:

• ... ceba ...

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:

• 1700-01-01T00:00:00Z/1750-12-31T23:59:59Z

Abstract:

• Manuscript leaf of an early Spanish to Yucatec dictionary. The recto contains entries from "Vagre" to "Valle" and the verso from "Vapor" to "Velar". Possibly folio 299 of the Vienna Dictionary. Fol. 64 written in red pencil on recto.

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/dcm039kg86m

Location:

• Special Collections C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 64)

Exhibit Tags:

• Yucatec

Genre:

• Manuscripts, Maya 18th century.
• Dictionaries 18th century.
• Paper.
• Dictionaries.
• manuscripts (documents)