Philipp Johann Josef Valentini papers, 1870-1899.
Collection Number: 9168
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Philipp Johann Josef Valentini papers, 1870-1899.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
9168
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people and artifacts, correspondence, several unpublished papers, drafts and manuscripts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.
Creator:
Valentini, Philipp Johann Josef, 1828-1899.
Bishop, Henry R. (Henry Rowley), 1786-1855.
Vinikov, I. N.
Astor Library
Huntington Free Library
Quanitities:
3.4 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
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people and artifacts, correspondence, several unpublished papers, drafts and manuscripts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.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Philipp Johann Josef Valentini papers, #9168. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Names:
Cheops, King of Egypt.
Columbus, Christopher.
Ixtlilxochitl.
Tamub.
Votan.
Xelhua.
United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
Places:
Washington (D.C.)
Tultepec (Mexico).
Panama.
Palestine -- Antiquities.
Palestine.
Palenque (Chiapas, Mexico).
Oaxaca (Mexico : State).
Mayapán (Mexico).
Costa Rica.
Copán (Honduras).
Subjects:
Yaqui language.
Yaqui Indians.
Tzotzil Indians.
Tools, Prehistoric.
Quiché Language.
Quiché Indians.
Quetzalcoatl (Aztec deity).
Pame Indians.
Nahuatl language.
Nahuas.
Mithras.
Mayas.
Mayan languages -- Writing.
Maya chronology.
Kukulcan.
Jade art objects.
Jade.
Hittites.
Gold miners.
Uomo egiziano.
Cliff-dwellers.
Cipactli.
Chichimeca-Jonaz Indians.
Indians of Mexico.
Indians of North America.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 |
"Die Inbrigca Leiden"
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Box 1 |
Palenquiana tracings
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Box 1 |
Palenque slabs
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Box 1 |
First copies of German Palenque Text, now rejected and reformed into: The English
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Box 1 |
"Palenque Text, Revised in September 1893"
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Box 1 |
"Deutsche Kladde Palenque Slab Temple of the Tree"
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August 7, 1892 | |
Box 1 |
"English and German texts for Memoir on the Two Palenque Slabs Temple of the Sacred
Tree"
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Box 1 |
Palenque, notes, drawings, charts, photos from notebook "Deciphering th Palenque Slabs
Temple of the Tree"
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Box 1 |
"Description of the Altar and of the figures engraved on it."
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Box 1 |
Untitled manuscript
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Box 1 |
"SI Die Copan sculptur und orientalische Tracht der abgebitdeter Personen."
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Box 1 |
"The Home and Haunts of the Tulteka. The Tultecan Embassy, an ethnical American study."
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May 1897 | |
Box 2 |
Notebooks regarding Christopher Columbus.
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Box 2 |
Drawings, note, Washington D.C. items.
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Box 2 |
Drawings
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Box 2 |
Notes on goldmines - Estrella River
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Box 2 |
Valentini and Vinikov letters
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Box 2 |
"Quaa Cavallon and Juan Ravago de Estrada"
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Box 2 |
Misc. Notes.
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Box 2 |
"A review of the contents of the Codex Ficenleal"
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Box 2 |
"Arms, Tools, utensils, as represented in the Maya Codices"
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Box 2 |
"Portraits of Prehistoric Americans"
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Box 2 |
Notebook on Jade
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Box 2 |
"Cipactl, Epagomena"
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Box 2 |
Tiefsinniges Christopher Columbus / Nachlesch
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Box 2 |
"Cipactl, the prehistorical astronomer"
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Box 2 |
"Civa Hindustani Cipactli Nahutal" February 1898
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Box 2 |
Montafaucon
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Box 2 |
Palestine, Orontes, Mesoptamia
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Scope and Contents
Notebooks in small box
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Box 2 |
Hindostana, Las Orasiones,Sahagaw, Dutt
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Scope and Contents
Notebooks in small box
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Box 2 |
Culture Heroes, Quetzalcohuatl et al
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Scope and Contents
Notebooks in small box
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Box 2 |
Cipactl Astronomer, Oaxaca
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Scope and Contents
Notebooks in small box
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Box 2 |
Palenque
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Scope and Contents
Notebook in small box
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Box 2 |
Tzotzil, Capan
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Scope and Contents
Notebooks in small box
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Box 2 |
Bundled notes
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Scope and Contents
Notes in small box
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Box 3 |
Mexican chronology notebook
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Box 3 |
2 Summer studies notebook
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Box 3 |
Palinque notebook
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Box 3 |
Panama drawings notebook
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Box 3 |
Cliff dwellers notebook
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Box 3 |
Mantics notebook
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Box 3 |
Costa Rica notebook
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Box 3 |
Pinzon - Solis Reise notebook
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Box 3 |
15 softcover notebooks
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Box 3 |
Maya Hieroglyphs notebook
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Box 3 |
Armen Roman Chron notebook
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Box 3 |
Ixtlilxochitl - relaciones notebook
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Box 3 |
Chichimeca
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Box 3 |
Mexican tribes notebook
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Box 3 |
Nahoa Latin notebook
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Huntington Box 22D |
"Manuscript cuts and charts, materials to the memoir"
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Huntington Box 22D |
Drawings on board and tissue.
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