Historia de las Indias de Nueva Espana e Islas de Tierra Firme

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Author: Duran, Diego (c1537-1588) Year: 1867-1880 Publisher: Imprenta de Ignacio Escalante Place: Mexico City Description: 3 volumes: xvi+535 pages; 305+[1]-177 pages with Explanation of the Codice Geroglifico of Mr Aubin by Alfred Chavero; 65 full-page engravings drawn from the Duran and Aubin manuscript, collates [1-32]+[1-10]+[1a]+[11a]+[2a-6a]+Aubin Codex [1a-16a]. Large Quarto (11 3/4" x 8 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers and housed in three cloth enclosures. Introduction and atlas by Jose F Ramirez. First edition. In the final quarter of the sixteenth century, Diego Duran compile an account of the history and religious-ritual system of the natives of late pre-Hispanic Central Mexico that is one of the richest resources for the study of Meosamerica's past. The Dominican friar's comprehensive reconstruction of Mexica culture is contained in his only known extant work, the Historia de las Indias de Nueva Espana e Islas de la Tierra Firme . This chronicle is composed of three tratados : 1) the "Libro de los Ritos" (completed in c1576); 2) the "Calendario Antiguo" completed in 1579); and 3) the "Historia" (completed in 1581). The lengthiest of the three tratados is the "Historia", a detailed history of the Mexica from their entry into the Valley of Mexico to the end of the Spanish conquest. Duran noted that the major source he employed for the "Historia", a Nahuatl history, regrettably lost, which he referred to as the "histoira" and "Historia mexicana", only tre

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