gloss, “CIVDAD. S. GABRIEL De chollolã”

This is a gloss in Spanish identifying the City of San Gabriel, part of Chollolan (Cholula, today). Very few communities had the privilege of calling themselves ciudades (cities). The monastery here was devoted to St. Gabriel. See Takanori Kobayashi, “History Engraved on the Urban Landscape: Formation of the Sacred City and Construction of Traditional Festivals in Cholula, Mexico,” in Constructing, Deconstructing, and Reconstructing Social Identity: 2,000 Years of Monumentality in Teotihuacan and Cholula, Mexico, eds. Saburo Sugiyama et al (2013), 120–121. [SW]