Details

Subject(s)

• Land tenure—Registration and transfer—Mexico [Browse]
• Nahuas—Mexico—Mexico City—History [Browse]
• Nahuatl language—Texts [Browse]
• Tlaxcala de Xicohténcatl (Mexico)—History [Browse]
• Mexico—History—Spanish colony, 1540-1810—Sources [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Unbound sheets [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]
• Wills—Mexico—18th century [Browse]
• Paper [Browse]

Contained in

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

Compiled/​Created

1694-1843.

Linking notes

Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).

Summary note

Consists of 25 legal documents, including wills and bills of sale. Places mentioned include San Andres Ahuashuatepec and San Salvador Tzompantepec, both in Tlaxcala.

Binding note

Unbound sheets in slipcase.

Language note

Texts in Nahuatl and Spanish.

Source acquisition

Gift Robert Garrett, 1949.

Cite as

Garrett Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 11, Manuscripts Division, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Place name(s)

Mexico Tlaxcala de Xicohténcatl.

In

Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s

OCLC

53853582

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