Details

Subject(s)

• Land tenure—Registration and transfer—Mexico [Browse]
• Nahuas—Mexico—Mexico City—History [Browse]
• Nahuatl language—Texts [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]
• Legal documents—Mexico—Mexico City—17th century [Browse]
• Wills—Mexico—16th century [Browse]
• Wills—Mexico—17th century [Browse]
• Paper [Browse]
• manuscripts (documents) [Browse]

Contained in

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

Compiled/​Created

1571-1617.

Linking notes

Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).

Summary note

Includes the last will and testament in Nahuatl of Toribio Feliciano, 1571 (2 fols.); legal statement in Nahuatl concerning a will followed by a certification in Spanish by Fray Juan de la Torre, Guardian of the Convent of Tula that the masses specified in the will have been said 1604 (2 fols.); last will and testament in Nahuatl of Maria Hernandez, an Indian of Tula. 1617 (2 fols.).

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

Place name(s)

Mexico Tula.

In

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

OCLC

60355656

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