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of tracings of hieroglyphs, pencil and colored drawings of landscapes, people and artifacts, correspondence, several unpublished papers, drafts and manuscripts for Valentini's Deciphering the Palenque Slabs, Temple of the Tree, The Home and Haunts of the Tulteka, and other untitled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

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of tracings of hieroglyphs, pencil and colored drawings of landscapes, people and artifacts, correspondence, several unpublished papers, drafts and manuscripts for Valentini's Deciphering the Palenque Slabs, Temple of the Tree, The Home and Haunts of the Tulteka, and other untitled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.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Philipp Johann Josef Valentini papers, #9168. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

SUBJECTS

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
Description
Date
Box 1
"Die Inbrigca Leiden"
Box 1
Palenquiana tracings
Box 1
Palenque slabs
Box 1
First copies of German Palenque Text, now rejected and reformed into: The English
Box 1
"Palenque Text, Revised in September 1893"
Box 1
"Deutsche Kladde Palenque Slab Temple of the Tree"
August 7, 1892
Box 1
"English and German texts for Memoir on the Two Palenque Slabs Temple of the Sacred Tree"
Box 1
Palenque, notes, drawings, charts, photos from notebook "Deciphering th Palenque Slabs Temple of the Tree"
Box 1
"Description of the Altar and of the figures engraved on it."
Box 1
Untitled manuscript
Box 1
"SI Die Copan sculptur und orientalische Tracht der abgebitdeter Personen."
Box 1
"The Home and Haunts of the Tulteka. The Tultecan Embassy, an ethnical American study."
May 1897
Box 2
Notebooks regarding Christopher Columbus.
Box 2
Drawings, note, Washington D.C. items.
Box 2
Drawings
Box 2
Notes on goldmines - Estrella River
Box 2
Valentini and Vinikov letters
Box 2
"Quaa Cavallon and Juan Ravago de Estrada"
Box 2
Misc. Notes.
Box 2
"A review of the contents of the Codex Ficenleal"
Box 2
"Arms, Tools, utensils, as represented in the Maya Codices"
Box 2
"Portraits of Prehistoric Americans"
Box 2
Notebook on Jade
Box 2
"Cipactl, Epagomena"
Box 2
Tiefsinniges Christopher Columbus / Nachlesch
Box 2
"Cipactl, the prehistorical astronomer"
Box 2
"Civa Hindustani Cipactli Nahutal" February 1898
Box 2
Montafaucon
Box 2
Palestine, Orontes, Mesoptamia
Scope and Contents
Notebooks in small box
Box 2
Hindostana, Las Orasiones,Sahagaw, Dutt
Scope and Contents
Notebooks in small box
Box 2
Culture Heroes, Quetzalcohuatl et al
Scope and Contents
Notebooks in small box
Box 2
Cipactl Astronomer, Oaxaca
Scope and Contents
Notebooks in small box
Box 2
Palenque
Scope and Contents
Notebook in small box
Box 2
Tzotzil, Capan
Scope and Contents
Notebooks in small box
Box 2
Bundled notes
Scope and Contents
Notes in small box
Box 3
Mexican chronology notebook
Box 3
2 Summer studies notebook
Box 3
Palinque notebook
Box 3
Panama drawings notebook
Box 3
Cliff dwellers notebook
Box 3
Mantics notebook
Box 3
Costa Rica notebook
Box 3
Pinzon - Solis Reise notebook
Box 3
15 softcover notebooks
Box 3
Maya Hieroglyphs notebook
Box 3
Armen Roman Chron notebook
Box 3
Ixtlilxochitl - relaciones notebook
Box 3
Chichimeca
Box 3
Mexican tribes notebook
Box 3
Nahoa Latin notebook
Huntington Box 22D
"Manuscript cuts and charts, materials to the memoir"
Huntington Box 22D
Drawings on board and tissue.