Manuscript compilation of documents relating to the estate of Ana Vanegas

In modern gray wrappers. Written in a sepia ink with some minor bleed-through from one side of a leaf to the other; dark stain in upper area of a dozen leaves. Some age-toning of paper. A few areas with tears, none serious. On the whole, very good.nn"Ana Vanegas was the daughter of Baltasar Vanegas and Catalina Hernandez, who at the time of this compilation were both deceased, and the widow of Jusepe de Peñafiel. In 1606 she was a novice in the monastery of Santa Clara in Mexico City and ill; she soon died of that illness. Her estate included real estate (houses) that she had inherited from her parents and others acquired during her marriage. Her heirs were her four children, sons Alonso, Jusepe, and Simon de Peñafiel, and daughter Catalina de San Jusepe, a nun in the same monastery as Ana.nnThe approximately 125 documents in this file are notarial copies done in 1607 and incorporate texts of documents from as early as the 1570s relating to the real estate that was being auctioned by executors of Ana's estate. The landholdings are listed on folio 8r-v and include a large house on Tacuba Street (in which Dr. Villanueva, a canon, lives), a house with a plot in the Theatines street, some "casas de indios" in the Tomatlan neighborhood, and a tall house (whose neighbors are given but not the street).nnThe information on the houses gives details of acquisition, loans or other pledges imposed on them, and ultimately the prices realized at auction."nnThe documents are written in a standard early 17th-century public notary's hand and as such are a great tool for teaching paleography as well as other principles of research, as they are full of abbreviations, lack of punctuation, non-separation of words, etc.,Measurements: 31.5 x 22.4 cm