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Item Catalog of Documents Principally Related to Land Holding, Land Use, Tribute, and Population of the Valle del Mezquital, Mexico, During the Sixteenth Century(Benson Latin American Collection, 2007) Grossmann Cairus, Brigitte; Cairus, JoseThis catalog lists documents from the Archivo General de la Nación, Mexico City, selected by Elinor G. K. Melville during her research to produce A Plague of Sheep: Environmental Consequences of the Conquest of Mexico (1994). The documents were selected from various ramos of the AGN. The 18 reels in this catalog correspond to her original numbering of reels 1-15 and 18-20 of the documents. Her originally numbered reels 16 and 17 have been separately cataloged to provide better access to two whole volumes (2346 and 2627) from the Ramo de Tierras which they contain; see Benson Latin American Collection FILM 26437 for a description of these two reels.Item Mesoamerican Codices(Benson Latin American Collection, 1991-03) Hironymous, Michael O.The pictorial and writing traditions of Mesoamerica developed early in tthe cultural history of the are and flourished during the Classic and Post-Classic periods. While many of the native documents were destroyed in the course of the Conquest, the indigenous traditions did survive and were utilized in colonial New Spain. This bibliography contains select references to the published reproductions of sixty-one native screenfold books and tiras which have come to be known as codices. Other pictorial works, such as lienzos, genealogies, cadastral records, maps, and the Techialoyan-style documents, are not included here. The codices are listed alphabetically with a brief description. The source of a published version of each codex and its call number follows. Consult the card catalog, the online catalog, or one of the bibliographies listed below to locate other editions of a codex or an interpretation and analysis of its content.