COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Papers concerning Maya chronology, hieroglyphs, slabs, and languages, with comparisons to archeological sites in Palestine and Mesopotamia. Collection includes holographic manuscripts, bound and loose, hand copied portions of books, extensive notes in notebooks, large collections of tracings of hieroglyphs, pencil and colored drawings of landscapes, people and artifacts, correspondence, several unpublished papers, drafts and manuscripts for Valentini's Deciphering the Palenque Slabs, Temple of the Tree, The Home and Haunts of the Tulteka, and other untitled works. Notes about jade, gold mines, Christopher Columbus, prehistoric copper and bronze tools, Maya leaders, cliff dwellers, Nahuatl language, Hittites. Drawings of Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Mayan ruins, scenes from Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica. Folder of notes about a trip Valentini took to Washington D.C., includes late 19th century photograph of the Capitol building. Notes are from Valentini's research, studies and observations.
Dates
- 1870-1899.
Creator
- Valentini, Philipp Johann Josef, 1828-1899. (Person)
- Bishop, Henry R. (Henry Rowley), 1786-1855. (Person)
- Vinikov, I. N. (Person)
- Astor Library (Organization)
- Huntington Free Library (Former owner, Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
3.4 cubic feet. (3.4 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Papers concerning Maya chronology, hieroglyphs, slabs, and languages, with comparisons to archeological sites in Palestine and Mesopotamia. Collection includes holographic manuscripts, bound and loose, hand copied portions of books, extensive notes in notebooks, large collections of tracings of hieroglyphs, pencil and colored drawings of landscapes, people and artifacts, correspondence, several unpublished papers, drafts and manuscripts for Valentini's Deciphering the Palenque Slabs, Temple of the Tree, The Home and Haunts of the Tulteka, and other untitled works. Notes about jade, gold mines, Christopher Columbus, prehistoric copper and bronze tools, Maya leaders, cliff dwellers, Nahuatl language, Hittites. Drawings of Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Mayan ruins, scenes from Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica. Folder of notes about a trip Valentini took to Washington D.C., includes late 19th century photograph of the Capitol building. Notes are from Valentini's research, studies and observations.
COLLECTION ARRANGEMENT
Original Huntington Free Library box numbers have been retained.
Physical Description
Manuscripts, Diaries, Reports
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- Evan Fay Earle
- Date completed:
- February 2006
- EAD encoding:
- Evan Fay Earle, February 2006
- Cheops, King of Egypt.
- Chichimeca-Jonaz Indians.
- Cipactli.
- Cliff-dwellers.
- Colección Itzamná (Ciencias)
- Columbus, Christopher.
- Copán (Honduras).
- Costa Rica.
- Gold miners.
- Hittites.
- Indians of Mexico.
- Indians of North America.
- Ixtlilxochitl.
- Jade art objects.
- Jade.
- Kukulcan.
- Maya chronology.
- Mayan languages -- Writing.
- Mayapán (Mexico).
- Mayas.
- Mesopotamia.
- Mithras.
- Nagual.
- Nahuas.
- Nahuatl language.
- Oaxaca (Mexico : State).
- Palenque (Chiapas, Mexico).
- Palestine -- Antiquities.
- Palestine.
- Pame Indians.
- Panama.
- Popol vuh.
- Quetzalcoatl (Aztec deity).
- Quiché Indians.
- Quiché Language.
- Tamub.
- Tools, Prehistoric.
- Tultepec (Mexico).
- Tzotzil Indians.
- United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
- Uomo egiziano.
- Votan.
- Washington (D.C.)
- Xelhua.
- Yaqui Indians.
- Yaqui language.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Evan Fay Earle
- Date
- February 2006
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu