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Summary Information
Philipp Johann Josef
Valentini papers,
Philipp Johann Josef,
Valentini 1828-1899.
1870-1899.
1.4 cubic
ft.
Manuscripts, Diaries,
Reports
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landscapes, people and artifacts, correspondence, several unpublished papers,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.
9168
Language: Collection material in
English
Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections, Cornell University Library
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