• Lienzo Córdova-Castellanos : manuscript, [between 1900 and 1912].

Date:
  • [between 1900 and 1912].
Range label:
  • Logical
Type:
  • Tracings
  • Texts
Former owner:
  • León, Nicolás, 1859-1929
  • Gates, William, 1863-1940
Donor:
  • Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961
Abstract:
  • A tracing (or copy) of a 16th-century Mixtec Indian lienzo from San Esteban Atlatlauhca, Oaxaca. Around the border are Mixtec place glyphs that presumably represent the boundaries of the jurisdiction of the town. Calendrical dates on the left, at the top, and near the center refer to mythological or historical events. The tracing is drawn in ink. The only color that appears is blue which appears in four places to color the heiroglyphic sign for water (at the center of the top and bottom rows and twice along the left edge).
Title sort:
  • Lienzo Córdova-Castellanos : manuscript, [between 1900 and 1912].
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Subject:
  • Picture-writing—Mexico
  • Zapotec Indians—Texts
  • Yucatan Peninsula—Antiquities
  • Tracings—Mexico—20th century
Language:
  • Mayan languages
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/cn69mc46f
Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Extent:
  • 1 item; 1200 x 1360 mm.
Call number:
  • C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 262)
Alternative:
  • Codex Abraham Castellanos
Relation:
  • Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s
Text language:
  • Text in Zapotec.
Provenance:
  • The tracing was probably made for Dr. Nicolás León at an unknown date; it was purchased by William Gates from Paul Wilkinson in 1912; 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.
Location:
  • HSVM C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 262)
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