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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
05741
Record number:
05741-2
JCB call number:
B770 C828h / 1-SIZE
Image title:
[Aztec Tribute List]
Creator 1:
[Manuel de Villavicencio]
Place image published:
[Mexico]
Image publisher:
[Br. D. Joseph Antonio de Hogal]
Image date:
[1770]
Image function:
plate 10; after p. 175
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
20.7 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
13.8 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height:
26.9 cm.
Page dimension width:
19.2 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Nahuatl, Spanish
Description:
A list of kinds of tribute paid to the Aztecs. Includes cloth or clothing, warriors' costumes, shields, measures of beans. Includes symbols for the towns paying. A cherub blows a trumpet and carries three books. Hanging from the trumpet is a cloth depicting an ecclesiastical coat of arms.
Source creator:
Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547
Source Title:
[Cartas. Carta 2a-4a] Historia de la Nueva-España, ... aumentada con otros documentos, y notas, por el ilustrissimo señor don Francisco Antonio Lorenzana, ...
Source place of publication:
En Mexico
Source publisher:
en la imprenta del Superior Gobierno, del Br. D. Joseph Antonio de Hogal en la Calle de Tiburcio.
Source date:
1770
notes:
One of the 31 facsimile plates illustrating a Mexican codex reproduced in Francisco Antonio de Lorenzana's Historia de la Nueva-España (Mexico, 1770). The Historia brought together historical documents relating to the civil and religious history of Mexico.
Time Period:
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1874.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings:
Indians of Mexico
Subject headings:
Manuscripts, Mexican--Facsimiles
Subject headings:
Lorenzana, Francisco Antonio, 1722-1804
Subject headings:
Picture writing, Mexican
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