• Tecamachalco legal documents, [1557-1594].

Collections:

• Mesoamerican Manuscripts
• Indigenous Cultures

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Date:

• [1557-1594].

Subject:

• Land tenure—Registration and transfer—Mexico
• Nahuas—Mexico—Mexico City—History
• Nahuatl language—Texts
• Tecamachalco (Puebla, Mexico)—History—16th century—Sources
• Mexico—History—Spanish colony, 1540-1810—Sources
• Indigenous Studies
• Legal documents—Mexico—Mexico City—16th century
• Paper
• Unbound sheets (Binding)—16th century

Language:

• Spanish; Castilian

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9939264993506421

Call number:

• C0744.02 (Garrett Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 15)

Extent:

• 1 v. (10 leaves) : paper ; 31 x 22 cm.

Spatial:

• Mexico

Relation:

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

Text language:

• Texts in Nahuatl and Spanish.

Binding note:

• Unbound sheets in slipcase.

Source acquisition:

• Gift Robert Garrett, 1949.

Created:

• 1557-01-01T00:00:00Z/1594-12-31T23:59:59Z

Abstract:

• 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.

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/dcrf55zk74d

Location:

• Special Collections C0744.02 (Garrett Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 15)

Edm rights:

• Copyright Not Evaluated

Range label:

• Logical

Exhibit Tags:

• Nahuatl