• Mexican Indian land transfers, 1602-1849

Collections:

• Mesoamerican Manuscripts
• Digitized Manuscripts
• Indigenous Cultures
• Patron Requests

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Date:

• 1602-1849.

Subject:

• Land tenure—Registration and transfer—Mexico—Mexico City
• Nahuas—Mexico—Mexico City—History
• Nahuatl language—Texts
• Latin America—History—17th-19th centuries—Sources
• Mexico City (Mexico)—History
• Mexico—History—Spanish colony, 1540-1810—Sources
• Legal documents—Mexico—Mexico City—17th century
• Legal documents—Mexico—Mexico City—18th century
• Legal documents—Mexico—Mexico City—19th century
• Paper

Language:

• Spanish; Castilian
• Burmese

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9938909503506421

Call number:

• C0940 (Princeton Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 16)

Extent:

• 1 v. (60 leaves) : paper ; 31 x 22 cm.

Type:

• Legal documents
• Paper
• Texts
• Sources

Title sort:

• Mexican Indian land transfers, 1602-1849.

Spatial:

• Mexico

Relation:

• Princeton Mesoamerican collection, [600s]-[1800s]

Text language:

• Texts in Nahuatl and Spanish.

Binding note:

• 19th century, quarter bound in calf.

Source acquisition:

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

Created:

• 1602-01-01T00:00:00Z/1849-12-31T23:59:59Z

Abstract:

• 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.

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/9k41zn85f

Location:

• HSVM C0940 (Princeton Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 16)

Edm rights:

• No Known Copyright

Range label:

• Logical

Exhibit Tags:

• Nahuatl