Codex Chimalpahin, Volume 1: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Texcoco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahua Altepetl in Central Mexico

Description

Editors: Anderson, Arthur J.O. and Schroeder, Susan

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Pub Date: 1997

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair to Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Without dust jacket.  Very light edge and corner wear.

Notes: Civilization of the American Indian Volume 226.   Trilingual.  English first (Introduction and Physical Description of the Manuscripts) then Spanish with English opposite, then Nahuatl with English opposite.   Chimalpahin was a scribe for a Catholic priest, Father Mora, the librarian at the Colegio de San Ildefonso in Mexico City.  Chimalpahin lived in Mexico City from 1593 until at least the mid-1620s.  His work is “the most extensive extant Nahuatl history of Indian Mexico by a known native author.”  (Page 6).   The materials by Chimalpahin are concerned primarily with the peoples in the Nahuatl areas of Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Texcoco, and Culhuacan.  This volume is primarily (“almost exclusively”) about the history of Mexico Tenochtitlan.  “Mexican history or chronicle, with its calendar of the months and the way of reckoning the years of the Mexicans in their heathendom.”  (Page 27).  And there you have it.