Research Catalog

Title

The titles of Ebtun / by Ralph L. Roys.

Author

Roys, Ralph L.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Carnegie institution of Washington, 1939.

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Additional Authors

Roys, Ralph L. (Ralph Loveland), 1879-1965

Description

xvii, 472 pages : illustrations, 15 plates (including maps (2 folded), facsimile) on 9 leaves 29 x 23 cm

Series Statement

• Carnegie Institution of Washington. Publication ; 505
• Carnegie Institution of Washington. Publication ; 505.

Alternative Title

Titulos de Ebtun.

Subject

• Land tenure > Mexico > Yucatán (State)
• Mayas
• Mayan (language family)
• Maya (culture or style)
• Land tenure
• Mayas
• Land tenure > Mexico > Yucatan (State)
• Mayas > Land tenure
• Mayas > History > Sources
• Indians of Mexico > Land tenure > Mexico > Yucatan (State)
• Yucatán (Mexico : State) > History > Sources
• Ebtún (Mexico) > History > Sources
• Sotuta, Yucatan
• Mexico > Ebtún
• Mexico > Yucatán (State)

Genre/Form

• History
• Sources

Note

• Spanish and Maya documents with English translations.
• "The Ebtun archives were discovered about 1917 by Mr. William Gates, who named them the Titulos de Ebtun."--p. iii.

Bibliography (note)

• "Appendix: Documentos de tierras de Sotuta" : p. 421-433.
• "References" : p. 435-439.

Contents

• Preface -- Introduction -- Prefatory note to the documents.
• Part one (1. Land agreements between the town of Yaxcaba and those of Ebtun, Kaua, Tekom, Cuncunul, and Tixcacalcupul, 1600 ; 2. Land agreements between the town of Ebtun and Kaua and those of Tekum, Cuncunul and Tixcacalcupul, 1700 ; 3. Survey by Antonio de Arze of boundary between the lands of Yaxcaba and those of Ebtun, Kaua, Tekom, Cuncunul and Tixcacalcupul, 1775)
• Part two (4. Documents connected with a lawsuit over the Tontzimin Tract: Don Diego Jacinto Tun vs. Ensign Juan de Orozco ; 5. Documents connected with a lawsuit over the Tontzimin Tract: Cuuncunul, Tekom, and Tixcacalcupul vs. Don Diego Jacinto Tun and Gabriel Virgilio ; 6. Documents connected with a lawsuit to enjoin trespass on the Tontzimin Tract: Cuncunul vs. Ebtun ; 7. Documents connected with Ebtun's suit to compel Cuncunul to sell the Tontzimin Tract and Cuncunul's counter-suit to restrain trespass by Ebtun)
• Part three (8. Titles of Ebtun: sixteenth and seventeenth centuries ; 9. Titles of Ebtun: first half of the eighteenth century ; 10. Titles of Ebtun: Titles of Ebtun: second half of the eighteenth century ; 11. Titles of Ebtun: nineteenth century to the end of the colonial period ; 12. Titles of Ebtun: nineteenth century following the revolution)
• Part four (Miscellaneous documents: proclamations, edicts, census, complaints of ill-teatment by Spaniards, records of municipal supplies, and commitments to jail, 1774-1824) -- Appendix: Documentos de tierra de Sotuta.

LCCN

40000995

OCLC

• ocm03453089
• 3453089
• SCSB-354148

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library