04914cfm a2200613 a 4500 5499687 20260720115717.9 aj canzn cr ||| 880414s1540 dcu a 0 e nah 5499687 7 cbc orignew u ncip 19 n-geogmaps ga07;ga15 88690436 a (DLC) 88690436 DLC DLC DLC G4414.T54:2O9 1540 .O9 4414 T54:2O9 4411 [The Oztoticpac lands map]. Not drawn to scale. [ca. 1540] 1 map : ms., col. ; on sheet 76 x 84 cm. Aztec pictorial document showing litigation map of Oztoticpac, an estate in Texcoco, ca. 1540. Title derived from The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, "The Oztoticpac Lands Map of Texcoco 1540," v. 23, no. 2, April 1966, pp. 76-116. Red and black ink. Worm holes. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 559 "Dated at approximately 1540, this map, a Mexican pictorial document with writing in Spanish and Nahuatl, relates to a lawsuit concerning the estate of Don Carlos Ometochtli Chichimecatecotl, an Aztec lord and one of the many sons of Nezahualpilli, ruler of Texcoco. Don Carlos was charged with heresy and publicly executed by the Spanish authorities on November 30, 1539. Litigation began on December 31, 1540, when a man identified as Pedro de Vergara petitioned the Inquisition to return to him certain fruit trees taken from the property of Don Carlos that Vergara claimed were his under a contract that had been concluded with Don Carlos several years earlier. Other individuals contended that the lands occupied by Don Carlos did not belong to him personally but to the family--the lords of Texcoco--as a whole. This map most likely was commissioned by Antonio Pimentel Tlahuilotzin, governor of Texcoco, to buttress these claims. Further complicating the case were claims by another set of petitioners that the Texcocan lands had been partitioned by the Spanish authorities and that lands held by Don Carlos during his lifetime were now the property of commoners. The outcome of the litigation is not known. The map reflects the pre-European, Mesoamerican tradition of using glyphs and indigenously produced paper (amatl) to make maps. Drawings done with red and black inks indicate land plots with indigenous measurements and place glyphs. Near the upper left is a plan of several houses within a precinct; on the right are maps showing more than 75 identified plots, an inventory of landed properties once owned by Don Carlos. In the lower left is a gloss of European fruit trees and grape vines grafted onto indigenous tree stock, the only such image of this agricultural technique known to exist in any Mexican indigenous pictorial document. The map provides details about the grafting of peach, apricot, pear, and other fruit trees imported from Spain onto apple and cherry trees indigenous to Mexico." World Digital Library. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Conserved; 03-86-301I.2 1986 Library of Congress Conservation Division. For treatment information, contact the Preservation Directorate. https://ask.loc.gov/preservation pda DLC Aztecs Antiquities Maps Early works to 1800. Oztoticpac (Texcoco de Mora, Mexico) Maps Early works to 1800. Oztoticpac (Texcoco de Mora, Mexico) Trials, litigation, etc. Maps Early works to 1800. Oztoticpac (Texcoco de Mora, Mexico) Antiquities Maps. Mexico Antiquities Maps Early works to 1800. Manuscript maps. lcgft Mexico Oztoticpac (Texcoco de Mora) Mexico. Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu g4414t ct000317 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g4414t.ct000317 c Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier. Selections from the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.hisp/esphtml.0004 u Vault Full size film negative in single map file. Color transparency (4 x 5 in.) in film file, G&M RR. Map included in "The World of Maps" exhibit, May-July 1972 and "Indians of North America" exhibit, Aug. 1977, no. 1. Also see Herbert R. Harvey's Land and Politics in the Valley of Mexico, University of New Mexico, 1988. ascesp/esplcmp/mp intldl GMD/CT ammem GMD/LHMAP ammem GMD/SETLMAP ammem 20001113 wdl c-G&M G4414.T54:2O9 1540 .O9 Copy 1 Vault MAPS