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Mexico

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

"Aviso para que no se permita el paso de libros prohibidos", circa 18th century

 File — Box 6, Folder: 93
Identifier: INQ-285
Scope and Contents

Undated blank form banning import of all unlicensed books.

Dates: circa 18th century

Inquisicion de Mexico, Edict of Faith, circa 1740

 File — Box 2, Folder: 17
Identifier: INQ-336
Scope and Contents

Extended text for Edict of Faith, requiring denunciations of various heresies; very extensive, mentioning specific Mexican practices, such as peyote use. Space for date left blank.

Dates: circa 1740

Inquisicion de Mexico, Public edict regarding banned works, 1637 July 15

 File — Box 4, Folder: 58
Identifier: INQ-231
Scope and Contents

Edict banning certain devotional images.

Dates: 1637 July 15

Inquisicion de Mexico, Public edict regarding devotional objects, 1637 July 10

 File — Box 4, Folder: 57
Identifier: INQ-230
Scope and Contents

Edict banning devotional objects, images, texts, etc. connected to Luisa de la Ascensión.

Dates: 1637 July 10

Mer y Villar, Juan de; Patricio Martinez de Bustos, Public edict for Lent, 1793 November 25

 File — Box 18, Folder: 297
Identifier: INQ-392
Scope and Contents

Publication of a 1792 notice authorizing consumption of meat during Lent, in accordance with a papal indult of 1791. Alms are to be collected for the poor in exchange for this privilege; the rate of payment is divided into four classes. Most Indians, Blacks, Meztizos, day laborers and mendicant friars, etc., are allowed to give prayers in lieu of monetary payment. Contains wax seal and notarial marks.

Dates: 1793 November 25

"Nos Don Francisco Perez de Prado y Cuesta…Obispo de Teruel…", circa 1700s

 File — Box 1, Folder: 11
Identifier: INQ-38
Scope and Contents Documents relating to Inquisition and law in the New world, ranging from 1717-1797; some apparently copied in the Secretaría de la Cámara de Gobierno, Mexico, for the benefit of an archbishop by Licenciado antonio Dies de Medina, Secretary. 1. Thirty-four articles on Inquisition procedure (Madrid 1747). 2. Royal order to respect the Inquisition (1763). 3. Royal brief for Viceroys (Aranjuez 1744). 4. Royal brief on legal procedure (Aranjuez 1740). 5. Royal brief (Aranjuez 1763). 6. Royal...
Dates: circa 1700s

Pope Pius V, "Si tenemos Quotidiano cuydado de defender todos los otros ministros de la yglesia…", 1569 April

 File — Box 18, Folder: 243
Identifier: INQ-208
Scope and Contents

Translation of the papl bull "Si de protegendis," asserting papal protection of inquisitorial witnesses and recognition of rights pertaining to familiars and officials. Issued in Mexico on the orders of Bartholome de Ledesma, with blank spaces for names of local authorities; rare example of early Mexican printing.

Dates: 1569 April

"Processo del Santo Officio, Ana, yndia", 1538

 File — Box 2, Folder: 20
Identifier: INQ-117
Scope and Contents

Trial notes of secretary Diego de Mayorca of a trial against Ana, an "yndia," for the crime of bigamy. Contains signature of inquisitor bishop Fray Juan de Zumárraga of Mexico. Contains signatures.

Dates: 1538

Sydney Hobart Ball and Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 0513
Scope and Contents The collection documents both the personal life and the professional activities of Sydney Hobart Ball. It includes more than 1,600 of Ball's letters, mainly written to family members while on mining trips around the world, as well as over 1,000 photos taken by Ball during these trips. There are also reports, articles and notes written by Ball on mining, as well as maps of places he visited. Also present in the collection is correspondence belonging to Ball's wife Mary, and to his daughters...
Dates: 1885 – 1991; Majority of material found in 1905 – 1949