Details

Subject(s)

• Land tenure—Registration and transfer—Mexico—Mexico City [Browse]
• Nahuas—Mexico—Mexico City—History [Browse]
• Nahuatl language—Texts [Browse]
• Latin America—History—17th-19th centuries—Sources [Browse]
• Mexico City (Mexico)—History [Browse]
• Mexico—History—Spanish colony, 1540-1810—Sources [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Legal documents—Mexico—Mexico City—17th century [Browse]
• Legal documents—Mexico—Mexico City—18th century [Browse]
• Legal documents—Mexico—Mexico City—19th century [Browse]
• Paper [Browse]

Compiled/​Created

1602-1849.

Linking notes

Forms part of the Princeton Mesoamerican Collection (C0940).

Summary note

Bound volume of 15 land documents concerning the ownership of land and property at the address "Casa no. 13 del Callejon de las Cedaceras" in Mexico City. The volume begins with a notarial document of 1602 in Nahuatl accompanied by a required Indian pictorial land map. The later documents are in Spanish.

Binding note

19th century, quarter bound in calf.

Language note

Texts in Nahuatl and Spanish.

Source acquisition

Purchase from Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts, 2003 May 3. Acc. no. 2003-121.

Cite as

Princeton Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 16, Manuscripts Division, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Place name(s)

Mexico Mexico City.

OCLC

54743179

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