The seventeenth-century Nahua, or Aztec, historian Chimalpahin made
an extraordinary contribution to the historiography of preconquest
and early colonial Mexico, but his work has been little known or
studied owing to the inaccessibility of its Nahuatl-language prose.
This groundbreaking edition of the Codex Chimalpahin, the most
comprehensive history of native Mexico by a known Indian, makes an
English-language transcription and translation available for the
first time.
The Codex Chimalpahin, which consists of more than one thousand
pages of Nahuatl and Spanish texts, is a life history of the only
Nahua about whom we have much knowledge. It also affords a
firsthand indigenous perspective on the Nahua past, present, and
future in a changing colonial milieu. Moreover, Chimalpahin's
sources, a rich variety of ancient and contemporary records, give
voice to a culture long thought to be silent and vanquished.
Volume Two of the Codex Chimalpahin represents heretofore
unknown manuscripts by Chimalpahin. Predominantly annals and
dynastic records, it furnishes detailed histories of the formation
and development of Nahua societies and polities in central Mexico
over an extensive period. Included are the Exercicio quotidiano of
Sahagun, for which Chimalpahin was the copyist, some unsigned
Nahuatl materials, and a letter by Juan de San Antonio of Texcoco
as well as a store of information about Nahua women, religion,
ritual, concepts of conquest, and relations with Europeans.
This volume is the second to be published, under the editorship
of Susan Schroeder, as a set that will culminate in Volume 6,
containing a comprehensive study of Chimalpahin's life and writings
and a bibliography for theentire Codex Chimalpahin.
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