Newberry Library, artifacts cage oversize Ayer MS 1907
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS18278
- Shelfmark:
- artifacts cage oversize Ayer MS 1907
- Title:
- Map of Teotihuacán, Mexico
- Date:
- 1560?
- Language:
- nah
- Material:
- hand col.
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 1 ms. map : hand col. ; 650 x 1000 mm. in box 88 x 123 x 2 cm.
- Note:
- Box title: Plan of Teotihuacán.
Date derived from two similar ms. maps of the same period. One variant is at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The second dated 1560 in a gloss is reproduced and analyzed in J.M. Arreola's Códices y documentos en mexicano (in M. Gamio's La Poblacion del valle de Teotithuacán, p. 553-8). The American Museum and Newberry copies are reproduced in S. Hagar's Celestial plan of...
Dimensions estimated for the original size of the sheet of amatl paper on which the map was drawn; now separated into 6 fragments.
Colored inks (black, yellow, green, red, brown, blue) on amatl paper.
Relief shown pictorially.
Includes two layers of backing removed from map. The first backing contains several printed papal bulls dated Madrid, 1740-1753. The second backing is a paper sheet (70 x 100 cm.) extensively annotated by Mexico City bookseller Wilson Wilberforce Blake, whose ownership stamp, dated July 10, 1891, appears in lower right.
Forms part of both the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Map Collection and the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library).
Notes on the W.W. Blake backing identify location of stone box in which the ms. was found at Teotihuacán and indicate that the map was in possession of an Indian for years before being sold to Leopoldo Batres. Subsequently acquired by Blake and Edward E. Ayer. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma991217388805867
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8ZSJC6OBN
- Holding Institution:
