Newberry Library, artifacts cage oversize Ayer MS 1906
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS18275
- Shelfmark:
- artifacts cage oversize Ayer MS 1906
- Title:
- Map of the Temascaltepec region in Mexico
- Date:
- approximately 1560
- Language:
- nah
- Material:
- hand col.
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 1 ms. map : hand col. ; on sheet 788 x 710 mm.
- Former Owner(s):
- Waldeck, Frédéric de, 1766-1875
- Note:
- In box with title: Map of San Martin de Temascaltepeque. Box title based on one of three churches shown on map.
Pen-and-ink and watercolor (green, blue, orange, brown).
Relief shown pictorially.
Formed from 4 leaves of native paper pasted together to form 1 sheet. Printed map used as backing removed and cataloged separately: Cook, James. Carte reduite de l'isle de Terre-Neuve. [Paris]: Publiée au ordre du Roi, au Dépôt des cartes, plans et journaux de la marine, 1784.
Verso of removed backing to ms. includes annotation by Waldeck, who dates the ms. circa 1560, and notes that it was used in a lawsuit, is on maguey paper, and includes conventional signs typical of both Indian and European influences. Other notes possibly by Ayer: Chadenat. 1901. 950 fr[ancs?].
Additional Waldeck materials at the Newberry Library include letters, journals, drawings, and other original Indian pictorial documents owned by Waldeck.
Forms part of both the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Map Collection and the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library).
Acquired by Frédéric de Waldeck sometime after 1837 (see Cline, HMAI Notes 14); subsequently acquired by Edward E. Ayer. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma991212518805867
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8ZSJCA6NC
- Holding Institution:
