Recetarios de indios en lengua maya : índices de plantas medicinales y de enfermedades

Name:

Pérez, Juan Pío, 1798-1859

Date:

1870

Description:

C. Hermann Berendt's copy of Juan Pío Pérez's study of the medical contents of the Books of Chilam Balam, with additional extracts and notes by Berendt. The first two sections of the manuscript are alphabetical lists of plants (p. 1-28) and ailments (p. 29-40), with references to burns, childbirth complications, colic, depression, gangrene, snake bites, stomach-aches, and worms. The later pages of the manuscript (after p. 51) are in much rougher form, with notes pasted in.

Language:

Spanish; Castilian; Mayan languages

Provenance:

From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).; Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878, former owner.; Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.

Subject:

Maya language -- Texts; Maya language; Mayan languages; Mayas -- Ethnobotany; Mayas; Maya language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc; Mayas -- Medicine; Materia medica, Vegetable -- Mexico; Materia medica, Vegetable; Traditional medicine -- Mexico; Traditional medicine; Mayan languages -- Texts; Indians of Mexico -- Languages; Language and languages

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); glossaries; herbals (reference sources); Manuscripts, Mexican; Manuscripts, Spanish; controlled vocabularies

Physical Description:

40 leaves : paper; 258 x 200 mm bound to 266 x 214 mm

Geographic Subject:

Mexico; Mexico -- Languages

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page (p. [i]).; Pagination: Paper, 40; [vi, 1], 2-49, [50-74] (p. 58-66 blank); pagination in hand of author, upper center; modern pencil pagination, lower outer corners.; Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.; Binding: Late 19th-century half leather.; Origin: Written in Mérida, Mexico, in 1870 (p. [i]).; Spanish and Maya.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 700 Item 45

Collection:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection