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- Description:
11 pages, 107 leaves of plates : facsimiles ; 28 cm.
- Series:
Anthropological publications / University of Pennsylvania, the Museum ; Vol. 5
- Published:
Philadelphia : University Museum, 1913.
- Language:
Mayan languages
- Notes:
A photographic reproduction of a Maya manuscript, compiled in 1782 by Juan José Hoíl, a Maya Indian. It is proposed in a future volume to print the text complete, accompanied by notes and commentaries, with possibly a translation. cf. Introd. Concerns the history of the conquest of the Yucatán by the Spaniards. Includes the ritual of the four world-quarters; the rise of Hunac Ceel to power; a prophecy for Katun 11-Ahau; the building of the mounds; memoranda concerning the history of Yucátán; notes on the calendar; the amorial bearings of Yucatán; notes on astronomy; the interrogation of the chiefs; the creation of the world; the rituals of the angels; a song of the Itza; the creation of the uinal; a history of the Spanish conquest; the prophecy of Chilam Balam and the story of Antonio Martinez; a chapter of questions and answers; an incantation; a series of Katun-prophecies; chronicles; a book of Katun-prophecies; the last judgment; prophecies of a new religion, cf. Roys. There are inscriptions in Spanish and a native language throughout (1832-1838), including names, places, and dates. For example "Chumayel Junio 28. de 1838 Chilam Balam [por Pedro Bristano].
Original found in the 19th-century in Chumayel, probably by don Adumaro Molina; given to Bishop Crescencio Carrillo y Ancona; the manuscript was expropriated by the government of General Alvarado (from Rivero Figueroa's library) in 1915; became part of the Cepeda Library in Merida and then disappeared; said to have belonged to Julio Berzunza in 1945. Acquired in 1968 by Princeton University from the widow of Julio Berzunza. Now Princeton Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 4, Manuscripts Division, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
- Local Notes:
RBC F1435 .C53 1913 c. 1.: Bookplate of George E. Stuart III.
- OCLC Number:
986540
- Other Identifiers:
LCCN: 14012428
