Details

Subject(s)

• Land tenure—Mexico—Yucantán (State)—18th century [Browse]
• Boundaries (Estates)—Mexico—Yucatán (State)—18th century [Browse]
• Mayas—land tenure—Mexico—Yucantán (State)—18th century [Browse]
• Mayas—History—18th century—Sources [Browse]
• Maya language—Texts [Browse]
• Valladolid (Yucatán, Mexico)—Surveys—18th century [Browse]
• Valladolid (Yucatán, Mexico)—History—18th century—Sources [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Related name

Muñoz, Juan Francisco [Browse]

Donor

Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Former owner

Gates, William, 1863-1940 [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Paper [Browse]
• manuscripts (documents) [Browse]

Contained in

• Robert Garrett collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s.

Compiled/​Created

[1789 Oct. 9].

Linking notes

Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).

Summary note

Titles to boundaries of approximately 26 communities in Eastern Yucatán. The first folio concerns the allocation of lands to different "pueblos," and either the results of or the necessity for a survey. The recto of fol. 1 is dated Valladolid (Zaci), October 9, 1789 and signed by Don Juan Francisco Muñoz. The remaining folios are too fragmentary to decipher.

Notes

• "[Inspe]ccion Administrativa, Valladolid, Yucatan"--Stamp on fol. 1r.
• "The American Art Association, Madison Square South, New York, 76"--Written in pencil on cover.

Binding note

In cloth box; housed with cardboard covers, removed.

Language note

Text in Yucatec with some Spanish.

Provenance

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. 76, 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

OCLC

60355076

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