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Manuscritos en mexicano 1580-1856

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Title Manuscritos en mexicano 1580-1856

Date 1580-1856

Place Mexico--Cholula, Mexico--Mexico City, Mexico--Puebla (State), Mexico--Tlatelolco

Language Nahuatl, Spanish

Subjects Baptismal records, Indians, Treatment of, Inheritance and succession, Land titles, Marriage records

Description Title from Ramírez and Butler.
Eight documents are on stamped paper for 1644-1693.
Acquired by Edward Ayer in 1904.

Summary Copies from 1855-56 of three miracle plays in Nahuatl and Spanish, translated by Faustino Chimalpopoca Galicia: Las almas y las albaceas; Del nacimiento de Isaac, del sacrificio que Abraham su Padre quiso por mandado de Dios hacer; Coloquio sobre el modo con que Santa Elena halló la Santa Cruz. Also includes deeds, bills of sale, wills, marriage and baptismal registers, and Indian petitions from the 16th-19th centuries from Texcoco, the Puebla area, and Mexico City. Documents from the Tlatelolco district in Mexico City include papers pertaining to the purchase of property by a Spaniard, Pascual Hernández, and two parochial marriage registers for 1631-1633. Documents from the Mexico City parish of Santa María Redonda include six wills in Nahuatl, two of which have been translated into Spanish; deeds and sale contracts for property transactions in the area; and doctrinal materials and sermons from 1739-1744 by the parish priest, Franciscan Father Francisco Antonio de la Rosa y Figueroa. A baptismal register from Cholula in the Puebla valley, records baptisms for 1624-25. Other Puebla documents include powers of attorney from Tehuacan, and a draft of a petition to the king by the Indians of Cuixtlaxcoapan on behalf of the local Franciscan friars. Miscellaneous documents, dated 1570-1689, contain extracts from a papal bull on indulgences for Jesuit missions; various wills; and several petitions by Indians from Texcoco and other villages, protesting conditions in Mexico and the authority of the Franciscan Order. Also included is a copy of Father José de la Mota's "Alabado en mexicano," printed in Mexico City in 1809.

Extent 40 folders (409 p.) ; 32 cm or smaller.

Format Deeds, Translations, Wills

Archival Collection Title Edward E. Ayer Collection, Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection, Edward E. Ayer North and Middle American Indian Linguistics Collection

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Call Number Ayer MS 1481

BibID 136697

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2760px × 3880px 30.67 MB

File Created 09/06/2023

Filename 991366978805867_Ayer_MS_1481_FL001_00001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11OLD3

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