Descriptive Information

Title

Mapa de Cuauhtlantzinco : manuscript, [1855].

Call Number

North 9, C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 258a)

Identifier

https://library.princeton.edu/mssimages/garrett-gates%20mesoamerican/garrettgatesmeso258a.jpg

Language

Mayan languages

Date Created

[1855].

Format

Manuscript

Extent

1 item; 3887 x 1041 mm.

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.

Rights Statement

Copyright Not Evaluated

Discovery Information

Subject

Indigenous peoples of Mexico—First contact with other peoples

Mexico—Conquest, 1519-1540—Pictorial works

Indigenous Studies

Physical Characteristics

File Count

1

Institutional Information

Collection

Mesoamerican Manuscripts

Holding location

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IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/73e3ecd7-76cf-45fd-b55e-ab95a6b72c6d/manifest

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