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Manuscripts and Archives > Mexico collection (MS 1776) > Series Part I: 1529-1907 > Author: Veytia, Mariano Fernández de Echeverría y. Title: "Historia del origen de las gentes que poblaron la América Septentrional, que llaman la Nueva España, con noticia de los primeros que establecieron la monarquía, que en ella floreció de la nación tolteca y noticias que alcanzaron de la creación del mundo." Place: Mexico. Description: A member of the Royal Audiencia of Mexico and historian, Mariano Fernández was a prominent scholar of Mexican pre-Columbian history in the second half of the eighteenth century. This work constitutes an extensive account of the political, religious and economic organization of the peoples who inhabited Mexico before the Spanish conquest. Contains six watercolor drawings of the toltec calendar, based on Lorenzo Boturini's texts. This is a copy of Veytia's manuscript, apparently made in the early nineteenth-century, from the original written in 1755. [18--?] > Libro 1

10013807

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Title: Libro 1
Published / Created: 1529-1907
Provenance: Materials have been assembled from various collections and acquired from several individuals. They include materials transferred from the Zeta Collection, Mudd Library, 2004. Transferred from the Latin American Collection Curator, Yale University Library, 2012.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: Spanish

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Manuscripts and Archives

Call Number

MS 1776

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Manuscripts and Archives
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  - Series Part I: 1529-1907
    Author: Veytia, Mariano Fernández de Echeverría y. Title: "Historia del origen de las gentes que poblaron la América Septentrional, que llaman la Nueva España, con noticia de los primeros que establecieron la monarquía, que en ella floreció de la nación tolteca y noticias que alcanzaron de la creación del mundo." Place: Mexico. Description: A member of the Royal Audiencia of Mexico and historian, Mariano Fernández was a prominent scholar of Mexican pre-Columbian history in the second half of the eighteenth century. This work constitutes an extensive account of the political, religious and economic organization of the peoples who inhabited Mexico before the Spanish conquest. Contains six watercolor drawings of the toltec calendar, based on Lorenzo Boturini's texts. This is a copy of Veytia's manuscript, apparently made in the early nineteenth-century, from the original written in 1755. [18--?]
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Box 15, folder 149, reel 15 | reel 15U

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Citation: Mexico Collection (MS 1776). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.

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Orbis Record: 4764671
Object ID (OID): 10013807

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