Item Summary

Sale of lands for 140 and 183 pesos, mentions penalties (prison, fines, etc.).

Descriptive Information

Title
Land sale by Velasco Xantzin, [1808 May 29].
Identifier
https://library.princeton.edu/mssimages/garrett-gates%20mesoamerican%20thumbnails/garrettgatesmeso217.jpg
Language
Mayan languages
Date Created
[1808 May 29].
Format
Manuscript
Extent
2 leaves : paper ; 31 x 22 cm.
Provenance
Previously owned by William Gates; sold to Robert Garrett (purchased from William Gates in 1930); deposited by Garrett at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in 1942; removed from the Institute in 1949, at Garrett's request, and donated to the Princeton University Library.
Source Acquisition
Gift; Robert Garrett; 1949.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
This is one of 17 legal documents collectively titled "Documentos Sueltos," including nos. 201-218.
Binding Note
Unbound sheets.

Discovery Information

Subject
Quiché Indians—land tenure—Guatemala—19th century
Ladino (Latin American people)—Land tenure—Guatemala—19th century
Quiché Indians
Quiché language—Texts
Totonicapán (Guatemala)—History—19th century—Sources
Indigenous Studies

Physical Characteristics

File Count
4

Institutional Information

Collection
Mesoamerican Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/71a519c2-bd07-4b1e-bae3-d8885680b326/manifest