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[Chalchihuapan manuscript].

 
HOLLIS Number
Publication
[Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], [1629]

Description

Digital Facsimile

1 manuscript leaf ; 23 x 32 cm.

Original, early colonial manuscript sheet from Tlaxcala, Mexico.

Sheet describes a purchase on Saturday April 7, 1629 by Don Pedro de Santiago, maestro, of a painting of the Blessed Virgin Mary by the painter Francisco de la Cruz; sheet signed also by Pedro Jacobo; Luis Damian, maestro; Francisco Matias, fiscal.

Title supplied by cataloger.

In Nahuatl.

 

Physical Description

In portfolio (4-flap enclosure), 35 cm.

 

Language

Spanish
 

Subject

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Devotion to -- Mexico.; Manuscripts, Nahuatl -- Mexico -- Tlaxcala.; Tlaxcala (Mexico) -- History -- 17th century -- Sources.