[Collection of ecclesiastical and secular documents concerning Chiapas]

Alternate Title:

Auto de real visita

Name:

Sierra Osorio, Lope de

Timespan:

17th century

Date:

1665/1676

Description:

A bound collection of ten originally separate documents concerning Chiapas, Mexico, particularly the pueblo of Chiapa de la Real Corona (now Chiapa de Corzo). Many of the documents are associated with visits by church or governmental officials, often from neighboring Guatemala, and refer to the Indians, mestizos, and blacks of the region, with a few marginal annotations highlighting these references. Many of the documents have notarial signatures and one has remnants of the Spanish royal seal (f. 51r).

Language:

Spanish; Castilian

Provenance:

Bookplates inside upper cover: Ex Collectione Americana, Domini Brasseur de Bourbourg; Alph. Pinart, Sol Oriens Discutit Umbras, Série E 4, No. 14.; From the collection of Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).; Brasseur de Bourbourg, abbé, 1814-1874, former owner.; Pinart, A. L. 1852-1911, former owner.; Brinton, Daniel G. 1837-1899, former owner.

Subject:

Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Chiapas; Mestizos -- Mexico; Mestizos; Black people; Indians of Mexico; Black people -- Mexico

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Manuscripts, Spanish; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

55 leaves : paper; 312 x 204 mm bound to 322 x 224 mm

Geographic Subject:

Mexico; Chiapas (Mexico) -- History -- 17th century; Chiapas (Mexico) -- Church history -- 17th century; Mexico -- Chiapas

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger; the spine title and the abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg's 19th-century title page reading Auto de la real visita hecha por don Lope de Osorio en el pueblo de Chiapa de la Real Corona both refer to only the first document of the collection.; Table of contents: 1. f. i, 1-4: Auto de real visita hecha por don Lope de Osorio en el pueblo de Chiapa de la Real Corona á favor de los indios de dicha comunidad, fecho en Guathemala á 24 de junio de 1665 / [Lope de Sierra Osorio?]; Table of contents: 2. f. 5-19: [Petition of Indians and dispatches of the Visitador General from Chiapa de la Real Corona, 1676]; Table of contents: 3. f. 20-21: [Document concerning the pueblo of Acala, in Chiapas]; Table of contents: 4. f. 22: [Document in a Mayan language]; Table of contents: 5. f. 23-34: [Document concerning Chiapa de la Real Corona, 1674]; Table of contents: 6. f. 35-38: Executoria real, Chiapa de la Real Corona, 1665.; Table of contents: 7. f. 39-41: Auto del Señor Visitador General, Chiapa, 1665.; Table of contents: 8. f. 42-46: Auto del Señor Visitador General, Chiapa de la Real Corona, [1666].; Table of contents: 9. f. 47-52: [Document with royal seal concerning Chiapa de la Real Corona, 1666]; Table of contents: 10. f. 53-54: [Document signed in Chiapa de la Real Corona, 1671]; Foliation: Paper, 55; i (19th-century paper) + 54; modern pencil foliation, lower right recto. Some documents have foliation from being in previous collections, but references in this record are to the modern foliation. Penciled notes on each of the documents seem to refer to a different ordering in an earlier collection; in their current order, they are numbered 19-21 followed by 12-18.; Binding: 19th-century boards with a leather spine.; Origin: Written in Chiapas, Mexico, between 1665 and 1676.; Spanish, with one document in a Mayan language (f. 22).

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 700 Item 202

Collection:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection