[Mexico]

Patente de la Cofradia, y Hermandad de los Esclavos del Santissimo Sacramento, y Nuestra Señora de la Concepcio Fundada en la Iglesia de la Santissima Trinidad, de Esta Ciudad de Mexico [caption title]

Mexico City: November 18, 1704. Broadside, approximately 12.5 x 8.5 inches. Previously folded. Moderate, but scattered worming, only slightly affecting one signature and one illustration. Light wear at edges; short, closed tear at center of top edge. Dampstaining to lower left corner. Lengthy manuscript annotation on blank verso. Good. Item #5344

An early 18th-century Mexican confraternity patent, completed in manuscript on November 18, 1704, for a woman, Manuela de la Ascension, accepting her into the "Brotherhood of the Holiest Sacrament and of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception." In exchange for several installment payments ("Dos reales el dia de su assiento, medio real cada semana, y quatro relaes de cera, cobrados la Quaresma para las fiestas, y gastos del culto divino de nra. Cofrandia..."), she would receive medical and religious care during illnesses, as well as twelve pesos toward her burial costs upon her death. Illustrated by two woodcuts and a decorative border of individual tools, and with manuscript docketing on the blank verso concerning the fulfillment of the confraternity's obligations. OCLC locates a copy of this state of the broadside at the Newberry Library, and two copies of another, later state with an alternate woodcut at Chicago and the JCB.

Price: $950.00