Chapter XXI: Part I: (Works written by the earlier Spanish authors)

Bernardino de Sahagun, Historia Universal de Nueva-España. (Mexico, 1829; London, 1830—in vol. vi of Lord Kingsborough’s Antiquities of Mexico.) French translation by Jourdanet and Siméon (Paris, 1880).

J. Torquemada, Monarquia Indiana. (Madrid, 1723.)

Torribio de Benavente (Motolinia), Historia de los Indios de Nueva-España. In Kingsborough’s Antiquities of Mexico, vol. ix, pp. 469 ff.; see also L. G. Pimentel, Memoriales de Fray Torribio de Motolinia (Paris, 1903), which contains materials not in the Historia. See also Icazbalceta.

Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl, Relaciones, in vol. ix of Kingsborough’s Antiquities of Mexico (London, 1830–1848). Edited by Alfredo Chavero (Mexico, 1891); Historia Chichimeca, in vol. ix of Kingsborough’s Antiquities of Mexico. Edited by Chavero (Mexico, 1892).

Diego Muñoz Camargo, Historia de Tlascala. Edited by A. Chavero. (Mexico, 1892.)

Francesco Saverio Clavigero, Storia Antico del Mexico. (Cesena, 1780.) English translation by Charles Cullen, 2 vols. (London, 1787.)

Lorenzo Boturini Benaduci, Idea de una Nueva Historia General de la America Septentrional. (Madrid, 1746.)

Antonio de Herrera, Historia General de los Indios Occidentales (1601–1615, 5 vols. folio; Madrid, 1728–1730). English translation by Stevens (London, 1725–1726—considerably abridged).

José de Acosta, Historia Natural y Moral de Las Yndias. (Seville, 1580.) English translation in Purchas his Pilgrimes.

Francisco Lopez de Gomara, Cronica de la Nueva-España. (Medina, 1553; Antwerp, 1554; Mexico, 1836.) English translation, The Pleasant History of the Conquest of the West Indies. (London, 1578.)

Antonio Leon y Gama, Descripcion de las Dos Piedros. (Mexico, 1792.)

Gonzalo Hernandez de Oviedo y Valdes, Historia General y Natural de las Indias Occidentales. (1535, vol. i only.) (Madrid, 1851–1855, 4 vols.)

Jacinto de la Serna, Manuel de Ministros de Indios para el Conocimiento de sus Idolatrias, y Extirpacion de Ellas. (Madrid, 1892.)

Augustin Vetancurt, Teatro Mexicana. (Mexico, 1697; 1870–1871.)

M. F. de E., Veytia, Historia Antigua de Mejico. (Mexico, 1836.) (Partly in Kingsborough, vol. viii.)

There may also be consulted:

B. de Las Casas, Historia de las Indias.

The best edition is that of Madrid (5 vols., 1875–1876).

Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de Nueva-España. Translated by A. P. Maudslay as The True History of the Conquest of Mexico. (Hakluyt Society, London, 1908.)

It gives but little information regarding Mexican religion.

Hernan Cortéz, Cartas de Relacion. English translation by F. A. MacNutt under the title of The Five Letters of Cortéz to the Emperor Charles V. (New York, 1908.)

A. Tezozomoc, Cronica Mexicana, in Kingsborough’s Antiquities of Mexico, vol. vii, contains much valuable mythical material; also edited by Orozco y Berra. (Mexico, 1878.)

Duran, Historia de las Indias (ed. Ramirez, 2 vols., Mexico, 1867–1880).

It is full, valuable, and sometimes indispensable.

Historia de los Mexicanos por sus Pinturas, in Annals of the Mexican Museum, vol. ii. Translated by T. Phillips, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc., vol. xxi.

Annales de San Anton, Muñon Chimalpahin. (Paris, 1889, translated by R. Siméon.)

Of considerable use as regards myth.

Anales de Quauhtitlan (or Codex Chimalpopocâ) in Anales del Museo Nacional de Mexico, end of tom. iii.

Thevet, “Histoire de Mechyque” (in Journ. Soc. Amer. de Paris, 1905, pp. 1–41).

G. de Mendieta, Historia Ecclesiastica Indiana. (Icazbalceta, Mexico, 1870.)

G. Icazbalceta, Nueva Coleccion de documentos para la historia de Mexico (Mexico, series i, vol. i, 1858; vol. ii, 1866; series ii, Mexico, 1886–1892).

The first volume of series i contains Motolinia’s Hist. de los Indios, and the third volume of the second series the work of Pomar y Zurita.

Ternaux-Compans, Voyages, Relations et Mémoires originaux pour servir à l’histoire de la découverte de l’Amérique. (Paris, 1837–1841, 20 vols.)

This contains Mendieta, Tezozomoc, Ixtlilxochitl, Camargo, etc.

Navarrete, Coleccion de los Viages y descubrimientos. (Madrid, 1825–1837, 5 vols.)

Many texts and rare works are also to be found in Lord Kingsborough’s Antiquities of Mexico (London, 1830–1848), especially Dupaix, Monuments of New Spain (in vols. iv and vi); translation of the text of the interpretative codices (see Appendix of this work), Sahagun (in vol. viii), Veytia, Historia del origen de las Gentes que Poblaron La America Septentrional (in vol. viii). Tezozomoc, Cronica Mexicana (in vol. ix), Ixtlilxochitl, Hist. Chichimeca (in vol. ix), Pimentel, Ritos, Antiguos, Sacrificios, etc. (in vol. x).