• Brujo calendar : manuscript, [1867].

Collections:
  • Mesoamerican Manuscripts
  • Robert Garrett
  • Digitized Manuscripts
  • Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
  • Indigenous Cultures
Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Date:
  • [1867].
Subject:
Language:
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Call number:
  • C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 243)
  • Electronic Resource
Extent:
  • 1 v. (10 leaves) : paper ; 22 x 17 cm.
Type:
  • Devotional calendars
  • Musical notation
  • Paper
  • Texts
Description:
  • Title supplied by William Gates.
  • Musical notation: 5-line staves with square notes.
Title sort:
  • Brujo calendar : manuscript, [1867].
Spatial:
  • Guatemala
Relation:
  • Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s
Text language:
  • Text in K'eq'chi, Spanish, and Latin.
Binding note:
  • disbound sheets.
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:
  • 1867-01-01T00:00:00Z
Abstract:
  • Contains a calendar of "lucky and unlucky days" in K'eq'chi, with months and certain feast days written in Spanish. No year indicated, but the date 1867 is written in pen on fol. 6v on day 16 of the month of October. Also includes 4 lines of religious music with K'eq'chi text on fol. 8v, and a Latin prayer (Salve Regina?) on fol. 9v. The manuscript was probably written in Lanquin, Alta Verapaz (Guatemala), where it was later acquired by William Gates. Together with typed transcription (2 copies) laid in.
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/qf85nf62m
Location:
  • HSVM C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 243)
  • HSVM Electronic Resource
  • ELF1 C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 243)
  • ELF1 Electronic Resource
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Range label:
  • Logical
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