[Aztlan] Santa Barbara Tamasolco (sic Tamascolco, Tamazolco)

Sat Mar 21 12:14:17 CDT 2009

From: carmecol at hotmail.com
To: samuel.y.edgerton at williams.edu
Subject: RE: [Aztlan] Santa Barbara Tamasolco (sic Tamascolco, Tamazolco)
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:12:46 -0400

Dear Sam and Listeros:
Luis Reyes García (1993: 196),  ascribes the document to Tamazolco (LIV, his numbering) in Ocotelulco. He considers it a 17th century document and (1993: 224-226) translated the painting's 30 glosses which includes references to the town's foundation in 1547. The sale of the lands portrayed and referred to in glosses #25 and 26 of this "codex", and which took place in 1616, is described more fully in a Nahuatl document (also year 1616) found in the Archivo General de la Nación (AGN), Ramo Tierras, Vol. 145, Exp. 7 folio 20r,  which Reyes (1993: 226) also translated. Below this AGN, Tierras text is a drawing almost identical of the church of Acolco  portrayed on the document from Tamazolco now in the British Museum. Line drawings of both documents were published by Meléndez Aguilar (1993: 292-293). Tamazolco "codex" is Document A  and the church of Acolco in the AGN document is (Document B). The glosses along the four sides of the church in document B were not translated, but in my opinion appear to be references to property linderos.
Rather than "a fragment of a much larger, circular map" as you propose, Reyes believed the Tamazolco painting was part of the same expediente in the AGN which was removed in the 19th century in Llondon and acquired by the Brisitsh Museum in 1857.
The complete citations:
Meléndez Aguilar, César J.1993 Dibujos a línea de códices tlaxcaltecas. p.237-325 in Luis Reyes García La escritura pictográfica en Tlaxcala: Dos mil años de experiencia mesoamericana Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Colección Historia de Tlaxcala. Primera edición, Tlaxcala, Tlax. 

Reyes, Luis,1993 Documentos pictográficos de Tlaxcala. p. 196-235 in Luis Reyes García La escritura pictográfica en Tlaxcala: Dos mil años de experiencia mesoamericana Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Colección Historia de Tlaxcala. Primera edición, Tlaxcala, Tlax. 

Regarding the town's location, I see no mention in either Gerhard or Mota y Escobar. 
The Newberry library has a photo of the document (Ayers Collection) in question and describes it together with two other photos of unrelated documents. The Handbook of Middle American Indians (Vol. 14:200) states no dimensions for the document and the texts as untranslated.
Link:http://www.biblioserver.com/newberry/index.php?m=search&id=&ftype=data&q=Santa%20Barbara%20Tamascolco
Content:
Title:[Nahuatl land ownership map of property in Santa Barbara Tamasolco, Mexico, 1597]Authors:= Gates, William, 1863-1940 = = British Library. Manuscript. Additional 22070. C. = = British Library. Manuscript. Additional 22070. A and B = = British Library. Manuscript. Additional 17038= = Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library) = = Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Map Collection (Newberry Library) = = Newberry Library. Manuscript. Ayer MS 1482Date:[19--]Size:1 mapNotes:Twentieth century photograph of 1597 manuscript pictorial map with Nahuatl glosses, showing properties in the vicinity of Santa Barbara Tamascolco, including two churches, a river, four people, and various place glyphs. Glosses mention Santa Barbara, Santa Ana, don Antonio de Mendoza, and Diego Muñoz, the Indian governor. 
Forms part of Mexican pictorial manuscripts in the British Library, [1590-1743] (Ayer MS 1482).
Accompanied by photographic reproductions of two other Mexican pictorial manuscripts (Techialoyan codices nos. 717 and 716), both dating from the first half of the 18th century, and concerning villages and lands in Tlaxcala and the valley of Mexico. Accompanying documents are fragments of village land books intended to legally establish the boundaries of a particular village, its barrios and outlying areas, and ownership claims to various land parcels. Illustrations, accompanied by explanatory texts in Nahuatl, the Indian language used in legal documents, depict the church, river, and farmlands of the village of San Pablo Huyxoapan, near Azcapotzalco, in what is now the Distrito Federal; individual fields are shown with their crops of maguey. In addition, the Santiago Chalco Codex contains illustrations of birds and animals, as well as a scene of the pueblo's patron saint being carried atop a trestle by the natives.
Photographic reproductions from the collection of William E. Gates.
Title from Gates (1924) and Butler: Maguey picture manuscript, figures of persons, buildings, plants and animals.
Dates from Robertson, Handbook of Middle American Indians, v. 14, p. 200, 264.
Techialoyan Codex 717 published as The Azcapotzalco maguey manuscript by the Maya Society (Baltimore, 1935).
Map forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Map Collection (Newberry Library).
For additional information, consult the Special Collections Info File.
Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library).
Butler, R.L. Check list of the mss. in the Ayer Coll., 1482.
Edward E. Ayer Coll. Indian lings., Nahuatl 154.
Gates, W.E. Wm. Gates Coll. (1924), 814, 815, 816.
Weeks, J.M. Mesoamer. ethnohistory, 664, 666.
Available on microfilm at the Newberry Library.
Ayer MS Proj 96Call Number:Ayer MS 1482Subjects:Santa Barbara Tamasolco (Mexico) - Maps - 1597 - Land ownership - Manuscripts - Facsimiles /Santa Barbara Tamasolco (Mexico) - Maps - 1597 - Indians - Land Tenure - Manuscripts /Indians - Land Tenure - Santa Barbara Tamasolco (Mexico) - Maps - 1597 - Manuscripts - Facsimiles / Nahuas - Mexico - Land Tenure - Maps - 1597 - Manuscripts - Facsimiles / Indian cartography - Maps - 1597 - Manuscripts - Facsimiles / Maps, Manuscript - Facsimiles

I hope this is helpful to you.
Sincerely,

Carlos

> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:44:23 -0400
> To: aztlan at lists.famsi.org
> From: Samuel.Y.Edgerton at williams.edu
> Subject: [Aztlan] Santa Barbara Tamasolco
> 
> Here it is again Michael. Aside from banks failing and stock markets 
> collapsing, computer crashing is still going to be the greatest threat to 
> modern society in the 21st century. Even China and India won't be immune!
> Sam
> 
> Listeros: Can anyone help me concerning a late sixteenth century Mexican 
> colonial map in the British Museum (HMAI #298) depicting churches in the 
> neighboring Tlaxcala parishes of Santa Barbara Tomasolco and Santa Ana. The 
> map is painted on amatl paper, inscribed in Latinized Nahuatl, and may be a 
> fragment of a much larger, circular map of the whole Tlaxcala diocese. I 
> have checked with several modern sources; Charles Gibson, Uta Berger, 
> Gordon Brotherston, and Serge Gruzinski, and all have no idea of what has 
> become of "Tamascolco" since there is no mention of it on any modern map 
> today. One clue is that it may once have existed where the present 
> community of Ocotelulco is today. The latter does possess a church, though 
> of more recent construction, that does resemble the church represented on 
> the BM map. Anything you can tell about this puzzle will be much appreciated.
> Thanks in anticipation,
> Sam Edgerton   
> 
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