• Yucatec prayers : manuscript, [1855].

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Date:

• [1855].

Subject:

• Mayas—Religion
• 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/9935203843506421

Call number:

• C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 71)

Extent:

• 1 v. (20 leaves) : paper ; 16 x 11 cm.

Alternative:

• Oraciones en Maya

Relation:

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

Text language:

• Text in Yucatec and Latin.

Binding note:

• Heavy leather wrapper.

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:

• 1855-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abstract:

• Pages 1-29 contain prayers in Yucatec-Maya. Page 30 is a register of deaths, etc. in Teabo, Yucatàn, and has the date October 4, 1855. Pages 31-38 contain Latin hymns, beginning with a setting of Psalm 113 ("Sit nomen Domini/Laudate pueri Dominum/laudate nomen Domini/Sit nomen Domini benedictum ex hoc nunc...). The manuscript was likely composed in Teabo as there are death records in the manuscript from the town.

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/dcpr76ff671

Location:

• Special Collections C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 71)

Exhibit Tags:

• Yucatec

Genre:

• Registers Mexico Teabo 19th century.
• Paper.
• History
• Leather bindings
• manuscripts (documents)