• Mapa de Cuauhtlantzinco : manuscript, [1855].

Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Date:
  • [1855].
Subject:
  • Indigenous peoples of Mexico—First contact with other peoples
  • Mexico—Conquest, 1519-1540—Pictorial works
  • Indigenous Studies
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Call number:
  • North 9, C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 258a)
Extent:
  • 1 item; 3887 x 1041 mm.
Relation:
  • Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s
Text language:
  • Text in Nahuatl.
Provenance:
  • Copy of the original which was known to have existed in a small town in Mexico, from immediately after the Conquest but later damaged by fire and since disappeared entirely; according to Gates the original was sent to Mexico City where the present copy was made, and then returned, after which the fire occured; previously part of the Jose Fernando Ramirez Collection (Bibliotheca Mexicana, 1880: no. 540); it was sent to Europe with the rest of the Mexican manuscripts and books of Ramirez and autioned in Paris; later purchased by Quaritch and listed in two catalogs issued by that dealer (Quatritch, 1880: no 176 and Quaritch, 1885: no. 29045); this copy was acquired by Gates and sold to Robert Garrett in 1930; it was not included in the manuscripts deposited by Robert Garrett in the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in 1942 but was brought by him to the Princeton University Library in 1949.
Source acquisition:
  • Gift; Robert Garrett; 1949.
Donor:
  • Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961
Former owner:
  • Ramírez, José Fernando, 1804-1871
  • Gates, William, 1863-1940
Created:
  • 1855-01-01T00:00:00Z
Abstract:
  • The manuscript is a partial copy of the original "Mapa de Cuauhtlantzinco," which details the reception by Hernan Cortes by a native Mexican chieftan on his way towards the Conquest of the capital, Mexico. Several of the sheets are portraits of native chiefs, with their names. Text on a number of pictures in Nahuatl.
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/dcj098zq30k
Location:
  • Special Collections North 9, C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 258a)
Exhibit Tags:
Genre:
  • Watercolors (paintings) Mexico 19th century.
  • manuscripts (documents)