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Title: Mexican Inquisition Papers
Dates: 1525-1822
Collection Number: Consult
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Extent:
49 volumes, 8 boxes, 4 facsimiles
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Manuscripts Department
The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2203
Fax: (626) 449-5720
Email: manuscripts@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: Original records of 93 trials from the
archives of the Holy Office of the Inquisition in Mexico.
Language of Material: The records are in Spanish.
Collection is open to qualified researchers by prior application through the
Reader Services Department. For more information, please go to following
web site .
In order to quote from, publish, or reproduce any of the manuscripts or visual
materials, researchers must obtain formal permission from the office of the
Library Director. In most instances, permission is given by the Huntington as
owner of the physical property rights only, and researchers must also obtain
permission from the holder of the literary rights. In some instances, the
Huntington owns the literary rights, as well as the physical property rights.
Researchers may contact the appropriate curator for further information.
[Identification of item], Mexican Inquisition papers, The Huntington Library, San
Marino, California.
Series I manuscripts were a gift of Walter Douglas in 1944.
Series II manuscripts were a gift of W.F. Stuart-Menteth in 1932.
Photostatic copies were received through G.R.G. Conway on February 26, 1927.
The Mexican Inquisition was an extension of the institution in Spain which had been
originated by the papal bull of Sixtus IV in 1478. The Supreme Council of the
Spanish Inquisition originally controlled both the local tribunals in Spain and
those in the colonies. In 1571 the Holy Office was established as a separate body in
Mexico. The purpose was to detect and try heretics or persons guilty of any offense
against the church (including violations by priests) and to investigate the blood
lines and genealogy of individuals aspiring to positions of trust in the Church or
government.
The collection consists of the original records of 93 trials from the archives of
the Holy Office of the Inquisition in Mexico. The testimony of these trials (for
heresy, blasphemy, violation of ecclesiastical vows, witchcraft, Judaism, and other
charges) reveals much information about ethnic groups and manners and customs in
colonial Mexico. The entire collection is in Spanish.
Individuals represented in the collection:
- Agustin, Juan. HM 35123.
- Alamilla Valderas, Pedro de. HM 35113.
- Alvarez, Leonor (Rodríguez) de. HM 35101.
- Amaya, Francisco de. HM 35147.
- Arceo, María de. HM 35132.
- Arellano y Córdova, Ramiro de. HM 35160.
- Arias de Rabanal, Gómez. HM 35156.
- Armas, Gaspar de. HM 35126.
- Ayala, Luis de. HM 35100.
- Barba, Bartolomé. HM 35106.
- Barrosso de Palacios, Cristóbal. HM 35158.
- Bazán, Nocilás [Nicolas?]. HM 35131.
- Bello, Antonia. HM 35115.
- Bermejo, Joseph. HM 35182.
- Bolaños, Sebastián de. HM 35133.
- Bruñón de Vertiz, Joseph. HM 35127.
- Cabrera, Diego de, see San Martín, Diego de.
- Cáceres, Leonor de. HM 35105.
- Caravajal, Ignacio. HM 35134.
- Carvajal, Juan de. HM 35154.
- Carvajal, Ignacio de, see Caravajal, Ignacio.
- Carmona Tamariz, Diego. HM 35161.
- Carvajal, Francisco de León, see León Carvajal, Francisco de.
- Casimiro, Vicente. HM 35177.
- Castillo, José Lázaro del. HM 35181.
- Castro, Margarita (Moreira) de. HM 35125.
- Caveros, Francisco. HM 35138.
- Charte, Pedro, see Conarte, Pedro.
- Correa Juárez, Pedro. HM 35131, HM 35132.
- Couto Figueroa, Sebastián de. HM 35157.
- Covarrubias, Agustín de. HM 35178.
- Covarrubias, Francisco de. HM 35149.
- Cruz, Cristóbal de la, see Basurto, Cristóbal.
- Díaz, Baltasar, see Valle, Baltasar del.
- Díaz, Domingo. HM 35109.
- Díaz, Yáñez, Juan, see Domínguez, Sebastián.
- Díaz de Possadas, Melchior. HM 35131.
- Domínguez, Sebastián. HM 35110.
- Enríquez, Catalina. HM 35123.
- Erenchun Salmerón, Mariana de. HM 35167.
- Fernández Arévalo, Joseph George. HM 35179.
- Fernández Cavadas de Quirós, Gregorio. HM 35173.
- Fernández Machuca, Antonio. HM 35128.
- Fernández y Domínguez, Manuel. HM 35138.
- Ferrete, Joseph de, see Basurto, Cristóbal.
- Fonseca, Gaspar de. HM 35123.
- Frechel, Pedro. HM 35108.
- García Cárdenas, Serafín. HM 35122.
- Gómez Casillas de Solorzano, Frutus. HM 35111.
- González Carmona, Diego. HM 35159.
- Guerrero, Bartolomé. HM 35122.
- Gutiérrez Jalapa, Juana. HM 35130.
- Hidalgo y Costilla, Manuel. HM 35101.
- Hortigosa, Pedro de. HM 35148.
- Iraragorri, Francisco de. HM 35155.
- Jacinto, Jorge. HM 35118.
- Juárez de Figueroa, Diego, see Suárez de Figueroa, Diego.
- León Carvajal, Francisco de. HM 35103.
- Leoz, Francisco de. HM 35162.
- López de Aguarda, Simón. HM 35118.
- López de Erenchun, Martín. HM 35163-HM35164, HM 35167.
- López de Erenchun, Tomás. HM 35164.
- López Páramo, Francisco. HM 35167.
- Manuel, Juan Antón. HM 35129.
- Marques, Vicente de los Dolores, see Casimiro, Vicente.
- Márquez, Pedro. HM 35106.
- Mauriño, Domingo. HM 35139.
- Melgarejo Santaella y Lobera, Antonio Eugenio. HM 35176.
- Mendoza, Pedro de. HM 35153.
- Menéndez Valdez, Fernando. HM 35106.
- Montoro, Antonio. HM 35171.
- Montoya, Jorge de. HM 35119.
- Mosquera, Pedro Bernardo. HM 35122.
- Muñoz, Francisco. HM 35108.
- Ocharte, Pedro. FAC 16.
- Olivares Villaroel, Juan de. HM 35161.
- Olmo, Pedro del. HM 35151.
- Oñate, Pedro de. HM 35098.
- Ortiz, Joan. FAC 15.
- Palao, Pedro Mártir. HM 35110, HM 35112.
- Palau, Pedro Mártir, see Palao, Pedro Mártir.
- Paniagua, Francisco. HM 35160.
- Peralta, Isidro de. HM 35168-HM 35169.
- Pérez de Ugarte, Joseph. HM 35107.
- Pineda y Morales, María Josepha. HM 35175.
- Quintero de Villalta, Baltasar. HM 35170.
- Rame, Luis. HM 35130.
- Ramírez, Luis, see Rame, Luis.
- Ramos, Domingo. HM 35114.
- Razin, Francisco, see Ruiz, Francisco.
- Reguera, Pedro de. HM 35108.
- Reyna, Bernardo. HM 35172.
- Rivera Rendón, Gerónimo de. HM 35106.
- Rodríguez, Domingo, see Díaz, Domingo.
- Rodríguez, Esteban. HM 35109.
- Rodríguez, Juan. HM 35129.
- Rodríguez, Leonor, see Alvarez, Leonor (Rodríguez) de.
- Rodríguez, Pedro. HM 35116.
- Rodríguez de Abouza y Messa, Manuel Joseph. HM 35174.
- Romano, Gregorio. HM 35152.
- Ruiz, Alonso. HM 35146.
- Ruiz, Francisco. HM 35120, HM 35124.
- Salinas, Buenaventura de. HM 35102.
- San Joseph, Francisca de. HM 35113.
- San Juan de la Cruz, Francisco de. HM 35137.
- San Martín, Diego de. HM 35121.
- San Nicolás, María de, see Arceo, María de.
- Solorzano, Melchior de. HM 35111.
- Suárez de Figueroa, Diego. HM 35120.
- Suárez de Mezquita, Alejandro. HM 35135.
- Texosso, Francisca. HM 35119.
- Texosso, Isabel. HM 35122.
- Tinoco, Antonio. HM 35121.
- Torquemada, Lorenzo de. HM 35124.
- Uribe, Juan de, see Rivera Rendón, Gerónimo de.
- Valle, Baltasar del. HM 35111, HM 35117.
- Vallejo, María Gerónima de. HM 35165.
- Vega, Pedro de. HM 35150.
- Vera, Santiago de. HM 35145.
- Vidaurre, Francisco de. HM 35117.
- Vie, Cornelio de. HM 35099.
- Villarejo, Eusebio. HM 35140.
- Villasana Platero, Gabriel de. HM 35144.
- Vívero, Rodrigo de. HM 35116.
- Yáñez, Francisco. HM 35097.
- Zaragoza, Miguel de. HM 35180.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged chronologically in two series.
HM 35129, Part I, f.22, was missing from the collection as of March 20, 2012.
Also included are facsimiles of portions of the Libro Primero de Votos.
A detailed container list is available through the Manuscripts Department.
A list of volumes in Series I was published in Hispanic American Historical Review,
Nov.1964, pp.565-567.
Many of the case files were listed for sale in Blake's Catalogue of Autographs and
Manuscripts, Printed Books on the Inquisition, and Associated Books, no.8
(1909).
Inquisition--Mexico.
Inquisition--Mexico--History--16th
century--Sources.
Inquisition--Mexico--History--17th
century--Sources.
Inquisition--Mexico--History--18th
century--Sources.
Inquisition--Mexico--History--19th
century--Sources.
Trials--Mexico.
Mexico--Ethnic
relations.
Mexico--History--Spanish
colony, 1540-1810--Sources.
Mexico--Politics and
government.
Manuscripts--Mexico--16th century.
Manuscripts--Mexico--17th century.
Manuscripts--Mexico--18th century.
Manuscripts--Mexico--19th century.