Conquista del Reyno de la Nueva Galicia en la America Septentrional, fundacion de su Capital Ciudad de Goadalaxara sus progresos militares y politicos y breve descripcion de los Reynos de la Nueva Viscaya, Nueva Toledo, o Nayarit, Nueva Estre maduram o Coahuila, Nuevas Philipinas, o Texas, Nuevo Reino de Leon, Nueva Andalucia, o Sonora, y Sinaloa, con noticias de la Ysla de la California por comprehenderse unos de d[ic]hos Reinos en el Ob[is]p[a]do de d[ic]ha cuidad, yotros en el districto de su R[eal] Au[dienci]a por el Lic[encia]do Dr. Mathias de la Mota Padilla natural de d[ic]ha cuidad de Goadalazara, Alguacil mayor de el Santo Officio, y actual Abogado Fiscal de d[ic]ha R[eal] Audiencia. Año de 1742 : manuscript, 1742.

Author
Mota Padilla, Matías de la, 1688-1766 [Browse]
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
  • Spanish
  • Latin
Description
1 v. (478 leaves) ; 30 x 21 cm.

Details

Subject(s)
Former owner
Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]
Getty AAT genre
Contains
Mota Padilla, Matías de la, 1688-1766. Conquista del Reino de la Nueva-Galicia en la América Septentrional. [Browse]
Contained in
Compiled/​Created
1742.
Linking notes
Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).
Summary note
Manuscript copy of a history of New Galicia extending to 1742. Includes accounts of its aborigines, its conquest and colonization by the Spaniards, founding of the capital city, and the work of religious orders, with brief descriptions of other regions which lay within the jurisdiction of the same audiencia or diocese. Title page written in 18th-century Mexican calligraphy.
Binding note
Brown calf, gilt stamped on spine with evidence of end clasps (now missing).
Language note
Text in Spanish with some Latin.
Provenance
Ex Biblioteca D. Francisci Xaverii de Gamboa Senatoris Mexicani"--Written in pen on front flyleaf. "W.S."--stamp on top edge of text block. "M.S. ... n. 76"--label on spine. Bookplate of Robert Garrett.
Source acquisition
Gift; Robert Garrett, Acc. no. AM 20161.
Cite as
Garrett Mesoamerican Manuscript, no. 12, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
Other format(s)
Published as: "Historia de la conquista de la provincia de la Nueva-Galicia, Escrita por el lic. D. Matias de la Mota Padilla en 1742, Publicada por la Sociedad mexicana de geografía estadística." México: Impr. de gobierno, á cargo de J.M. Sandoval, 1870 [1871-72].
In
Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s
OCLC
81364849
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