• Yucatec prayers : manuscript, [between 1851 and 1882].

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Date:

• [between 1851 and 1882].

Subject:

• Mayas—Religion
• Maya language—Texts
• Indigenous Studies

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9935203903506421

Call number:

• C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 72)

Extent:

• 1 v. (64 leaves) : paper ; 15 x 10 cm.

Alternative:

• Sermones

Relation:

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

Text language:

• Text in Yucatec with some Spanish.

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:

• 1851-01-01T00:00:00Z/1882-12-31T23:59:59Z

Abstract:

• Contains prayers in Yucatec-Maya, Spanish, and Latin. Contains devotional verses and songs in Yucatec-Maya and Spanish and a register of deaths (place unknown) written primarily in Spanish. Page 11 is dated August 8, 1882 and p. 74 is dated Tekom, October 18, 1851. There is a death entry for Tekom and also a mention about the bishop of Chichimilia; hence, the manuscript probably originated in Tekom or Chichimilia, which is only a few miles away from Chichimilia.

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/dcv692tj552

Location:

• Special Collections C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 72)

Exhibit Tags:

• Yucatec

Genre:

• Paper.
• Leather bindings
• manuscripts (documents)