El largo periplo de un documento colonial: La Pintura de la Peregrinación de los culhuas-mexitin (El Mapa de Sigüenza)

Abstract

The document that will be discussed here is an important pictographical manuscript of Ancient Mexico made in the colonial period. As other documents of this time it passed from hand to hand forming part of the large collections of most renowned persons of colonial, modern, and present day Mexico. In 1904, after receiving notice that it was for sale in a Bazar of antiquities in Mexico City, it was finally rescued by the National Museum from which it had been taken. As such, the objective of the present contribution is to inform scholars of the vissicitudes of many documents with which we work today. The Pintura de la Peregrinación de los culhuas-mexitin has been taken as an example.