Pascualla, Maria (d. circa 1657) Last Will & Testament of a Nahuas Woman.
Diocese of San Nicolás Panotla, Tlaxcala, 1657.
Single laid paper sheet with attached flap inscribed in a secretarial hand in brown ink; with reference in the text to her Nahuatl ethnicity; old folds, some tears; generally legible and well-preserved; 12¼ x 8½ in.
The Diocese of Tlaxcala, founded in 1519 and officially named in 1525, is the oldest diocese in Mexico. It is located in the Puebla de los Angeles (Cuetlaxcoapan in the indigenous Nahuatl language) ecclesiastical province in eastern central Mexico.
