a Spanish surname; e.g. fray Juan de Torquemada was the Franciscan friar who wrote the Monarquia indiana, which was published in Seville in 1615; he apparently drew from codices for this monumental work about the indigenous peoples of (primarily) central Mexico
See Sell's comments in Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 20.