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Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1585.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Misc Mss Box 14 Folder 23
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Paz, Fernando, 16th century.
- Language:
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--Guatemala.
- Slavery--Guyana.
- Slavery.
- Guatemala--History--To 1821.
- Guatemala.
- History.
- Guyana.
- Genre:
- contracts
- Manuscripts, Spanish.
- Manuscripts, Renaissance.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold at auction at Bonhams (New York), 14 Apr. 2012, lot 25.
- Sold by Voyager Press Rare Books & Manuscripts (West Vancouver, British Columbia), Manuscripta Americana catalog (2012).
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (1 leaf)
- Contained In:
- Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Box 14 Folder 23
- Place of Publication:
- 1585.
- Language Note:
- In Spanish.
- Summary:
- Signed contract for the sale in Guatemala of an enslaved African woman transported from Guyana, to buyer Señor Juan Durán by seller Señor Fernando Paz. Later foliation suggests that this paper leaf was removed from a volume or a bound collection of documents.
- OCLC:
- 806232422
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