Details

Subject(s)

• Land tenure—Registration and transfer—Mexico [Browse]
• Nahuas—Mexico—Mexico City—History [Browse]
• Nahuatl language—Texts [Browse]
• Tecamachalco (Puebla, Mexico)—History—16th century—Sources [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—16th century [Browse]
• Paper [Browse]

Contained in

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

Compiled/​Created

[1557-1594].

Linking notes

Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).

Summary note

Consists of legal documents in Nahuatl and Spanish concerning lands and rents. Leaves 1-4 in Nahuatl. Leaves 5-9 contain Spanish translation of the Nahuatl. On fol. 9v there is a difficult date: 1594? and the signature of Don Luis de Velasco identified in the text as Caballero de la Orden de Santiago. Depending on the date this may be the first or second Viceroy of that name. Folio 1 is a land document in Nahuatl and Spanish. the text begins, "Muy Magos. Señores. Franco Garcia de Morales nican nichan china ynipan Xmaltepetin Amispanticinco..." Francisco Garcia de Morales is identified in the text as "Español". The words "tlalli" and "cavallerias" (lands in Nahuatl; Spanish for a unit of land measure, respectively) so that the document concerns lands. The Nahuatl text is continued on the verso and mentions "Diego Ramirez, excribano de la audiencia" and his signature appears together with 10 others.

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. 15, Manuscripts Division, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Place name(s)

Mexico Tecamachalco.

In

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

OCLC

60355655

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