Selected transcriptions and analytical translations of testaments from Northern Zapotec communities from the following archives:
— Archivo del Poder Judicial del Estado de Oaxaca (APJO), Villa Alta, Criminal: Oaxaca City, Mexico
— Archivo General Agrario (AGA): Mexico City, Mexico
— Archivo General de la Nación (AGN): Mexico City, Mexico
Please note the abbreviations for the dictionary sources that appear in the translation footnotes:
BU-(page number): Butler, Ines. 2000. Vocabulario zapoteco de Yatzachi el Bajo. 2nd ed. Mexico City: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano.
CO-(folio number): Córdova, Juan de. 1578. Vocabulario en lengua çapoteca. Mexico City: Pedro Ocharte and Antonio Ricardo.
TESTAMENTS BY REPORTED DATE OF PRODUCTION
SIXTEENTH CENTURY
1595: Testament of don Bartolomé de Chávez Tia Lapag from Zoogocho
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
1610: Testament of Miguel Contreras from Reagui
1614: Testament of María de la Cruz from Yatzona
1656: Testament of Domingo Peres from Talea
1671: Testament of Domingo Mendoza from Yotao
1674: Testament of Joseph Sanches from Yatzachi
1690s (?): Testament of Miguel Hernández Sánchez from Yagayo
17th century (?): Probanza of Yelabichi
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY