• Titulos primordiales de la Hacienda de Buena Vista (alias La Archicofradía) : manuscripts, 1672-1777.

Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Date:
  • 1672-1777.
Subject:
  • Hacienda de Buena Vista (Mexico)
  • Hacienda de la Archicofradía (Mexico)
  • Hacienda de la Assumpcíon (Mexico)
  • Pueblo de Chalco (Mexico)
  • Haciendas—Mexico—18th century—Trials, litigation, etc
  • Indigenous peoples of Mexico—Land tenure—18th century
  • Land tenure—Mexico—18th century
  • Water rights—Mexico—18th century
  • Chalco (Mexico)—History—18th century—Sources
  • Indigenous Studies
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Call number:
  • C0940 (Princeton Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 21)
Extent:
  • 1 v. (448 leaves) : fold. maps ; 33 cm.
Source acquisition:
  • Purchase, 2008. AM 2009-46.
Created:
  • 1672-01-01T00:00:00Z/1777-12-31T23:59:59Z
Abstract:
  • Folio volume of approx. 22 legal documents relating to land and water litigation in colonial central Mexico (not far from Mexico City), with 3-leaf manuscript index and five manuscript maps, bound in 19th-century quarter morocco and cloth. The maps are a 17th-century folding plan of the Pueblo de Chalco; another copy of that plan; another folding plan of Chalco, ca. 1734, with haciendas and ranchos handcolored and the hills of Cocotitlan in the distance; a handcolored map of the Province of Chalco with several pueblos and haciendas detailed, the rising sun and the Sierra Nevada depicted in the background, dated 1768; and a handcolored plan of the division of water between the haciendas of Assumpcíon and Buena Vista in the Province of Chalco. Among other pueblos represented on the maps are Pueblo de Mecameca, Pueblo de Santiago Ayapango, Pueblo de Temamatla, and Pueblo de Tenango Tepopula.
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/6w924n37q
Location:
  • Special Collections C0940 (Princeton Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 21)
Exhibit Tags:
Genre:
  • Legal documents Mexico 18th century.
  • Manuscript maps Mexico Chalco 18th century.
  • Manuscripts, Spanish 18th century.
  • manuscripts (documents)