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Bernice Weiss Collection
Prepared by the Mexican Archives Project
February 13, 1995
Introduction
The Bernice Weiss Collection was purchased by the Benson Latin American
Collection in 1977 from Bernice Weiss, a rare books dealer in
Eastchester, New York. The collection was described by the Benson's
Mexican Archives Project in September 1994.
The collection's physical extent comprises 1.7 linear feet, or circa 675
items. Its materials are in Spanish.
The suggested citation is "Bernice Weiss Collection, 1547-1914, Benson
Latin American Collection, General Libraries, University of Texas at
Austin."
Scope and Contents Note
The Bernice Weiss Collection is an artificial collection consisting of
manuscript and printed documents relating principally to colonial and
nineteenth-century Mexico, especially civil, government, military, and
church matters.
Items concerning personal, civil, and legal affairs (1547-1900) include
correspondence, wills, inventories, estate settlements, petitions, and
complaints. Some items in the series are hacienda and land records
relating to Indian, Spanish, and church land transactions and disputes of
ownership of land.
Materials pertaining to national and local government and military
affairs (1621-1914, but mostly 19th century) include circulars,
proclamations, official documents and communications, correspondence, and
regional and municipal regulations.
Documents about the Catholic Church (1562-1866) include proclamations,
regulations, official communications, and circular and pastoral letters
relating to church organization and practices, the Archbishopric of
Mexico, the Cathedral of Mexico, parish affairs (some concerning the
interaction of curates and Indians), religious orders, and missions,
among other topics. Among church materials is a record book of the
charitable order of San Hipólito (1790-1803).
Folder List
The Bernice Weiss Collection was arranged into three series by the staff
of the Mexican Archives Project, which completed the processing of the
collection in September 1994. The documents were arranged
chronologically within folders.
| | | | Box |
Folder |
| I. | Series, Personal, civil, and
legal affairs. | | 1. | Correspondence,
1765-1900. | | 1 | 1 |
| 2. | Literary productions,
1799-1813. | | 1 | 2 |
| 3. | Papers of Manuel Agreda,
1829-1841. | | 1 | 3 |
| 4. | Marín y Muñoz family
papers, 1797-1858. | | 1 | 4 |
| 5. | Military personnel,
1797-1867. | | 1 | 5 |
| 6. | Assorted personal materials,
1611-1856. | | 1 | 6 |
| 7. | Land transactions and
disputes. | | | a. Indians,
1590-1837. | | 1 | 7-9 |
| | b. Spanish inhabitants of Mexico,
1547-1837. | | 1 | 10-19 |
| | c. Convents and chaplaincies,
1608-1827. | | 2 | 1-6 | | 8. | Wills, inventories, and estate
settlements, 1727-1869. | | 2 | 7-13 |
| 9. | Debts, petitions, and complaints,
1587-1887. | | 2 | 14-22 | | II. | Series, Government and military
affairs. | | 1. | Circulars, proclamations, and
official documents and communications,
1636-1914. | | 3 | 1-4 |
| 2. | Correspondence (military
concerns), 1821-1868. | | 3 | 5 |
| 3. | Regional and municipal
regulations, 1621-1844. | | 3 | 6-7 |
| 4. | Military infractions. | | | a. Fort of Perote,
1801-1803. | | 3 | 8-11 |
| | b. Military personnel,
1787-1846. | | 3 | 12 |
| III. | Series, Catholic
Church. | | 1. | Papacy and Holy See,
1752-1819. | 4 | 1-3 |
| 2. | Episcopacy. | | | a. Archbishopric of
Mexico. |
| | i. Archdiocesan matters,
1683-1866. | | 4 | 4-6 |
| | ii. Cathedral of Mexico City,
1562-1843. | | 4 | 7-9 | | | b. Regional dioceses of
Mexico, 1694-1830. | 4 | 10-13 | | 3. | Regular
orders. | | | a. Internal government,
1631-1839. | 4 | 14 |
| | b. Conventual life and
colleges, 1600-1859. | 4 | 15-19 |
| | c. Missions,
1786-1822. | 4 | 20 | | 4. | Parishes. | | | a. Mexico City,
1775-1866. | 4 | 21-22 |
| | b. Outlying areas,
1778-1808. | 4 | 23-24 |
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