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Manuscrito de Tolcayuca

(Manuscrito Techialoyan de Tolquauhyocan, Hidalgo, Mexico)

This predominantly textual manuscript, with multiple leaves bound on the left margin, has as its focus the history of San Juan Tolcayuca, an indigenous community in what is now the state of Hidalgo, republic of Mexico. The manuscript is an unpublished example from the genre called “Techialoyan Codices” — late colonial, Nahuatl-language manuscripts written and painted on amatl (amate in Spanish, the name for a native fig-bark paper). Techialoyan manuscripts date from the late-seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. This particular one is not found in the Techialoyan survey published in the Handbook of Middle American Indians in 1975.

In this manuscript, six folios, measuring approximately 6.5” by 9” and bound on the left margin, have content on both sides, including two graphic pages that serve as a front and back cover, and four folios with full, running text on them. The text is in Nahuatl. The hand is smaller than the ones found in typical Techialoyan manuscripts.

On the front cover is a painting of a figure from the Mendoza Moctezuma genealogies, don Diego de Mendoza Austria Moctezuma. On the back cover is a painting of the town, with a major road crossing through it, and mountains in the background.

The text pages tell about historical personages supposedly associated with the town (such as don Hernando de Alvarado), describe its land claims, and give detailed territorial boundary information. It exhorts local people to preserve and defend the town. Neighboring towns are sometimes mentioned, a few sixteenth-century dates are referenced, and town council members are named.

Some of the amatl pages of this manuscript have European paper glued on top of the amatl, making a smoother surface upon which to write or paint. One of the pieces of European paper was pulled back at one point, either by the owner or a rare book dealer (working at H. P. Kraus in New York) to reveal a seventeenth-century papal bull on the other side. A number of Techialoyan manuscripts listed in the catalog published in the Handbook of Middle American Indians (1975), also have pages that consist of papal bulls glued onto amatl.

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Provenance

Current Owner: Library of Congress
Current Location: Library of Congress
Division: Rare Book and Special Collections Division
Collection: The Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress

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