...Victoria R. Bricker The Archivo Notarial del Estado in Mérida, Yucatán, contains a large collection of approximately 550 documents in the Maya language from the municipal records of Tekanto, a small town located about 54 kilometers east of Mérida. The earliest Maya documents in the collection bear...

... documents related to the colegios produced by Mexico City’s notaries from the 1550s to the 1570s. The notarial documents demonstrate that these institutions were important to Mexico City residents both rich and poor, both white and non-white. bradley.benton@ndsu.edu Copyright 2022 by American...

... to the study of the African diaspora in the urban centers of New Spain (colonial Mexico). By combining an extensive corpus of notarial, judicial, and parochial records with isolated references to Puebla's Nahuatl-language annals, this article also sheds light on city-dwelling native women who married enslaved...

...Miriam Melton-Villanueva Abstract Indigenous escribanos , notaries, based in the western part of what is now Mexico State, lived in small highland towns within the regions of Jilotepec and Metepec and wrote the documents studied here. They wrote the land sales, testaments, financial instruments...

...), which she terms the “Independence archive,” has given her a rich source base to explore this local world. Given the sources, the decision to pursue a deep local study makes sense methodologically; however, the wider colonial and independence context is thus closed off. Nahua escribanos (notaries...

... a first attempt to present the new corpus to the public, concentrating mainly on San Bartolomé, which we will first describe in terms of numbers of documents, time period, and gender ratio, followed by some attention to testament conventions and notaries. Then we will discuss some specific...

... of death. All the wills in the Documentos de Tekanto were written in Maya, and the notaries (labeled in Spanish as escribano) had Maya surnames. Personal names were derived from the names of Christian saints, which are marked for gender in Spanish. In all but one case, where the name...

... Martin Nesvig of whom the notary, Francisco López de Avezilla—the alleged orgy ring- leader—was one.1 According to witness statements made before the dioce- san prosecutor, Juan Ruiz, López de Avezilla had engaged in a wide range of suspicious, idolatrous, and sexually deviant practices.2...

... the book’s eight chapters, the names of fifty creative practitioners active in Quito between 1550 and 1650 are resurrected from historical oblivion. Through Webster’s scouring of the notarial archives, we are privy to information about a variety of artistic genres and the early art market. We also learn...

... state. Historian Robinson Herrera came to a differ- ent conclusion while working with Spanish-language­ notarial books from the first sixty years of Spanish colonial rule in the capital city of Santiago de Guatemala. From his point of view, Nahuatl’s usefulness clearly derived from the presence...

... and Native America, 1585– 1685. By Michael Leroy Oberg. (Ithaca, ny: Cornell University Press,1999. x + 239 pp., preface, introduction, index, bibliographic essay, maps. $39.95 cloth.) Death of a Notary...

... it difficult to discern when offices first appear.35 Even extant records are unreliable. Until the mid-1680s, Spanish notaries recorded only the information they considered pertinent from the indigenous election results, making it impossible to discern the exact com- position of Indian town councils...

... of the book discusses the rules that were supposed to govern notarial practices as set forth in manuals from the period and laws that were enacted in order to make notaries more accountable and to protect their customers. But Burns also points out that the practice of sell- ing notarial offices...

... address this oversight with regard to colonial Latin America with a particular emphasis on Cuzco, Peru. The first chapter of the book discusses the rules that were supposed to govern notarial practices as set forth in manuals from the period and laws that were enacted in order to make notaries...

... address this oversight with regard to colonial Latin America with a particular emphasis on Cuzco, Peru. The first chapter of the book discusses the rules that were supposed to govern notarial practices as set forth in manuals from the period and laws that were enacted in order to make notaries...

... address this oversight with regard to colonial Latin America with a particular emphasis on Cuzco, Peru. The first chapter of the book discusses the rules that were supposed to govern notarial practices as set forth in manuals from the period and laws that were enacted in order to make notaries...

... address this oversight with regard to colonial Latin America with a particular emphasis on Cuzco, Peru. The first chapter of the book discusses the rules that were supposed to govern notarial practices as set forth in manuals from the period and laws that were enacted in order to make notaries...

... address this oversight with regard to colonial Latin America with a particular emphasis on Cuzco, Peru. The first chapter of the book discusses the rules that were supposed to govern notarial practices as set forth in manuals from the period and laws that were enacted in order to make notaries...

... address this oversight with regard to colonial Latin America with a particular emphasis on Cuzco, Peru. The first chapter of the book discusses the rules that were supposed to govern notarial practices as set forth in manuals from the period and laws that were enacted in order to make notaries...

... address this oversight with regard to colonial Latin America with a particular emphasis on Cuzco, Peru. The first chapter of the book discusses the rules that were supposed to govern notarial practices as set forth in manuals from the period and laws that were enacted in order to make notaries...