Details

Subject(s)

• Quiché Indians—land tenure—Guatemala—18th century [Browse]
• Land grants—Guatemala—Totonicapán—18th century [Browse]
• Ladino (Latin American people)—land tenure—Guatemala—18th century [Browse]
• Quiché language—Texts [Browse]
• Totonicapán (Guatemala)—History—18th century—Sources [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Donor

Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Former owner

Gates, William, 1863-1940 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Unbound sheets [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Land grants—Guatemala—Totonicapán—18th century [Browse]
• Paper [Browse]
• manuscripts (documents) [Browse]

Contained in

• Multi-title collection including Deed of sale for land from Juan Vicente Santiago : Momostenango, Guatemala, and 16 other(s).
• Robert Garrett collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s.

Compiled/​Created

[1773 Dec. 11].

Linking notes

Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).

Summary note

Land grant with endorsements. Consists of a grant of land to a boy, Pedro Baquiax, dated Dec. 11, 1773, with a Spanish endorsement dated Mar. 9, 1774. Also mentions certain penalties, to-wit, 50 blows, 7 days in prison, and 3 pesos fine; endorsed confirmation by the Alcalde.

Notes

This is one of 17 legal documents collectively titled "Documentos Sueltos," including nos. 201-218.

Binding note

Unbound sheets.

Language note

Text in K'iche' and 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. 209, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Place name(s)

Guatemala Totonicapán.

Other title(s)

Documentos Sueltos

In

• Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s
• Multi-title collection including Deed of sale for land from Juan Vicente Santiago : Momostenango, Guatemala, and 16 other(s).

OCLC

60355110

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