Legal Broadsides (Mexico, printed by Pedro Ocharte), 1582-1584

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Title:
Notarial contracts from colonial Puebla de los Angeles (New Spain/Mexico, ca. 1580)
Dates:
1582-1584
Creators:
Molina, Melchor de.
Abstract:
Three notarial documents from the end of the sixteenth century in the city of Puebla document the system through which financial transactions and powers of attorney were formalized through the use of a public scribe in early colonial Mexico.
Extent:
2 leaves: paper; 320 mm x 215 mm
Language:
Finding aid is written in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Notarial contracts from colonial Puebla de los Angeles (New Spain/Mexico, ca. 1580) (Collection 170/383). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library.

Background

Scope and content:

These three notarial documents from the end of the sixteenth century in the city of Puebla de los Angeles document the system through which quotidian transactions were formalized through the use of a public scribe in early colonial Mexico. As three separate notarial contracts, there do not appear to be any linkages.

Text in Spanish.

Biographical / historical:

Annotated by Melchor de Molina and Toriobio de Ma. Villa in Puebla de los Angeles, New Spain, in 1582 and 1584 respectively. Melchor de Molina also appears as the scribe for Leonardo Ruiz de la Peña's testament in the Archivo del Convento de la Concepción in Puebla (ACCP, Libro de Profesiones, f. 2, 1586/07/17).

Processing information:

Processed by Pablo Sierra, with assistance from Kelley Bachli, Center for Primary Research and Training (CFPRT), February 2008.

Physical location:
Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Rules or conventions:
Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Manuscripts.

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Processed by Pablo Sierra, with assistance from Kelley Bachli, Center for Primary Research and Training (CFPRT), February 2008; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.
Date Prepared:
© 2011
Date Encoded:
Machine-readable finding aid derived from database containing container list structure and data, encoding added via MS Access and Notetab Pro; Date of source: 2004-2007; frontmatter gathered MARC Record. Supplementary encoding and revision supplied by Caroline Cubé.

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Restrictions:

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.

Terms of access:

Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Notarial contracts from colonial Puebla de los Angeles (New Spain/Mexico, ca. 1580) (Collection 170/383). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library.

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
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