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Finding Aid to Documents for the history of Mexico, circa
1524-1855
BANC MSS M-A 1
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Collection Title: Documents for the history of Mexico
Date (inclusive): circa 1524-1855
Collection Number: BANC MSS M-A 1
Creator :
Archivo General de la Nación (Mexico)
Extent:
Number of containers: 12 cartons, 204 volumes.
Microfilm reels : 4
Repository: The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Abstract: A great miscellany, from the time of Hernán Cortés through the
exploration of the Pacific Coast and the occupation of Texas, the northern provinces,
California, to the Gadsden Purchase. From the Archivo General de la Nación, Mexico (AGN).
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in Spanish
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite
and advance notice may be required for use. For current information on the location of these
materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Collection is open for research. Collection is stored in part offsite: advance notice is
required for use.
FOR REFERENCE USE ONLY. Reproduction prohibited. Requests for copies or permission to
publish should be directed to the owners of the originals.
Location of originals at the time of reproduction was at the Archivo General de la
Nación, Mexico.
[Identification of item], Documents for the History of Mexico, BANC MSS M-A 1, The
Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Folders 0685-0686 in Carton 6 from the series, "Inquisición" are also available on
microfilm with call number BANC FILM 2092.
Copies of 5
tomos from Operaciones de Guerra and
tomo 201 from Provincias Internas are also available on microfilm
with call number BANC FILM 3097. Reel 1:
tomo 1-2,
Operaciones de Guerra (Arredondo); reel 2:
tomo 3-4,
Operaciones de Guerra (Arredondo); reel 3:
tomo 1,
Operaciones de Guerra (Salcedo); and
tomo 201, Provincias
Internas.
Documents from the AGN also appear in two other collections: Account book for sugar
plantation, 1693-1698 (BANC MSS M-A 2) and Documents relating to the Juzgado de Indios,
1580-1820 (BANC MSS M-A 3). Because of the nature of these collections, it was not
possible to integrate them into the regular AGN group.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library's online public access catalog.
Catholic Church--Mexico
Yucatan (Mexico :
State)--History
Mexico--Church history
Scholes, France Vinton, 1897-
Archivo General de la Nacion (Mexico)
Documents which were copied in the Archivo General de la Nación (AGN), Mexico City, by
methods other than microfilm are listed in this finding aid. The copies were made
primarily during the period from 1920 to 1945. The transcripts are mostly typed, with a
few copies made by hand. The prints were, for the most part, enlarged from nitrate film.
In some cases, the nitrate has been replaced by safety film; in others, the nitrate was
destroyed because it was hazardous. Professors Woodrow Wilson Borah and France Vinton
Scholes were largely responsible for these documents having come to the Bancroft Library.
In the late 1940's The Bancroft Library, guided by Professor George P. Hammond, began a
program of microfilming in Mexico and Spain, and some of the materials in this collection
are also available on microfilm. No attempt has been made to correlate the modern
microfilm to the paper copies. The use of the microfilm notebooks and this guide together
would make such a correlation possible. The documents in the collection have been checked
against Herbert Eugene Bolton's
Guide to Materials for the History
of the United States in the Principal Archives of Mexico.
The arrangement of
ramos follows that of the AGN. In
addition, within the
ramo, documents are identified with
tomo or
legajo number, and
expediente, folio, or date to provide a citation to the
original source.
Documents, unless otherwise marked, are transcripts.
Collection processed by Bancroft Library staff
Scope and Content of Collection
A great miscellany, from the time of Hernán Cortés through the exploration of the Pacific
Coast and the occupation of Texas, the northern provinces, California, to the Gadsden
Purchase. From the Archivo General de la Nación, Mexico (AGN).
The arrangement follows that of the AGN, and is organized by the following
ramos:
- Archivo del Hospital de Jesus
- Archivo Historico de Hacienda
- Bandos
- Californias
- Carceles y Presidios y Presidios y Carceles (listed here as "Presidios")
- Civil
- Correspondencia de Los Virreyes
- General de Parte
- Historia
- Indios
- Inquisición
- Justicia
- Mercedes
- Mineria
- Misiones
- Operaciones de Guerra
- Ordenanzas
- Papeles de Bienes Nacionales
- Presidios
- Provincias Internas
- Reales Cédulas
- Reales Cédulas Duplicados
- Tierras
- Vinculos
There are two additional series in this collection:
- Scholes Transcripts
- Library