Details

Subject(s)

• Land tenure—Mexico—Ebtún—18th century [Browse]
• Mayas—land tenure—Mexico—Ebtún—18th century [Browse]
• Mayas—History—18th century—Sources [Browse]
• Maya language—Texts [Browse]
• Ebtún (Mexico)—History—18th century—Sources [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Former owner

• Gates, William, 1863-1940 [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Paper [Browse]

Contained in

• Robert Garrett collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s.
• Multi-title collection including Title to land : Ebtún, Mexico, and 2 other(s).

Compiled/​Created

[1721].

Linking notes

Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).

Summary note

A legal document concerning land in Ebtún, Yucatan. No names identified. "36" is written in red pencil in upper left corner of fol. 1r. Together with a fragment of another legal document concerning land in Ebtún, Yucatan. Date unknown [18th-century]. No names identified. "36" is written in red pencil in upper left corner of fol. 1r and "[Inspe]ccion Administrativa, Valladolid, Yucatan"--Stamp on fol. 1r of fragment.

Binding note

In cloth box; housed with cardboard covers, removed.

Language note

Text in Yucatec; with some Spanish.

Provenance

"Valladolid Yucatan"--Stamp on fol. 1r. "The American Art Association, Madison Square South, New York, 1835, 36"--Written in pencil on cover; previously owned by William Gates; sold to Robert Garrett (purchased from William Gates in 1930); deposited by Garrett at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in 1942; removed from the Institute in 1949, at Garrett's request, and donated to the Princeton University Library.

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett; 1949.

Cite as

Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 36, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

In

• Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s
• Multi-title collection including Title to land : Ebtún, Mexico, and 2 other(s).

OCLC

82068514

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