Fragments of the Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Census from the Jagiellonian Library

A Lost Manuscript
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-45710-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 716 g

Reihe: Heterodoxia Iberica

Fragments of the Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Census from the Jagiellonian Library: A Lost Manuscript provides a missing chunk of the sixteenth century Marquesado census—one of the earliest known texts in Nahuatl. In the critical edition of this manuscript, Julia Madajczak, Katarzyna Granicka, Szymon Gruda, Monika Jaglarz, and José Luis de Rojas reveal how it traveled across the Atlantic only to be lost during World War II and then rediscovered at the Jagiellonian Library, Poland. When connected to other surviving fragments of the Marquesado census, now held in Mexico and France, the Jagiellonian Library manuscript sheds new light on pre-contact and early colonial Nahua society. The authors use it to discuss the concept of calpolli, family life, and the production of administrative documentation in the early colonial Tepoztlan of today’s Morelos.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Madajczak, Julia

Anna Granicka, Katarzyna

Gruda, Szymon

Jaglarz, Monika

de Rojas, José Luis

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Leben & Praxis, Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Introduction

Julia Madajczak

Part 1: The Manuscript

1 The Berlinka Collection

Monika Jaglarz

2 Manuscripta Americana and the Provenance of Mss. Amer. 3, 8, and 10

Monika Jaglarz and Julia Madajczak

3 Mss. Amer. 3, 8, and 10 in Relation to the Marquesado Census Corpus

Julia Madajczak

4 Mss. Amer. 3, 8, and 10: The Scribes

Szymon Gruda

5 The Creation and History of the Tepoztlan Census

Julia Madajczak, Szymon Gruda and Monika Jaglarz

Part 2: The People

6 The Jagiellonian Library Census Fragments in Numbers

José Luis de Rojas

7 Family Relations in Tepoztlan

Katarzyna Granicka

8 Administrative Structure and Social Groups in Tepoztlan

Julia Madajczak

9 Land and Tribute in the Jagiellonian Library Census Fragments

José Luis de Rojas

Part 3: Transcription and Translation of the Jagiellonian Library Census Fragments

10 Glossary of Nahuatl Terms

Julia Madajczak and José Luis de Rojas

11 Conventions for the Transcription of the Jagiellonian Library Census Fragments

Julia Madajczak and José Luis de Rojas

12 Transcription and Translation

Julia Madajczak and José Luis de Rojas

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Julia Madajczak, Ph.D. (2015), University of Warsaw, is assistant research professor at the Faculty of "Artes Liberales" at that university. She has directed several research projects and published numerous articles and book chapters focused on Nahua history and culture.


Katarzyna Granicka, Ph.D. (2018), is researcher at the Center for Research and Practice for Cultural Continuity at the Faculty of "Artes Liberales," University of Warsaw. She is currently working on the critical edition of the 1548 Nahuatl-Spanish Dominican "Doctrina Christiana."


Szymon Gruda, Ph.D. (2018), University of Warsaw, is adjunct lecturer at that university. His Ph.D. thesis Language and Culture Contact Phenomena in the Sixteenth-Century Vocabulario trilingüe in Spanish, Latin and Nahuatl was published in 2018.


Monika Jaglarz, Ph.D. (2003), Jagiellonian University, is manuscripts librarian at the Department of Manuscripts at the Jagiellonian Library in Kraków (since 1999). She has participated in research projects and contributed to publications on Berlin collections at the Jagiellonian Library.


José Luis de Rojas (1984 UCM) is professor of History of America at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He has published many papers and books on the natives of Mesoamerica and New Spain, including Tenochtitlan: Capital of the Aztec Empire (UPF, 2012).