Item Summary

Titles to boundaries of approximately 26 communities in Eastern Yucatán. The first folio concerns the allocation of lands to different "pueblos," and either the results of or the necessity for a survey. The recto of fol. 1 is dated Valladolid (Zaci), October 9, 1789 and signed by Don Juan Francisco Muñoz. The remaining folios are too fragmentary to decipher.

Descriptive Information

Title
Title to land : Valladolid, Yucatán, [1789 Oct. 9].
Call Number
C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 76)
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/g732dd82h
Language
Mayan languages
Date Created
[1789 Oct. 9].
Format
Manuscript
Extent
6 leaves : paper ; 10 x 9 to 30 x 20 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
"[Inspe]ccion Administrativa, Valladolid, Yucatan"--Stamp on fol. 1r.
"The American Art Association, Madison Square South, New York, 76"--Written in pencil on cover.
Binding Note
In cloth box; housed with cardboard covers, removed.

Discovery Information

Subject
Land tenure—Mexico—Yucantán (State)—18th century
Boundaries (Estates)—Mexico—Yucatán (State)—18th century
Mayas—land tenure—Mexico—Yucantán (State)—18th century
Mayas—History—18th century—Sources
Maya language—Texts
Valladolid (Yucatán, Mexico)—Surveys—18th century
Valladolid (Yucatán, Mexico)—History—18th century—Sources
Indigenous Studies

Physical Characteristics

File Count
12

Institutional Information

Collection
Mesoamerican Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/143143fe-506b-4ee3-b9d7-7573b422d792/manifest