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.

About the Author
Arthur J. O. Anderson (1907-1996) was renowned for his and Charles E. Dibble's translation of the Florentine Codex by Fray Bernardino de SahagUn.

Susan Schroeder is France Vinton Scholes Professor of Colonial Latin American History Emerita at Tulane University and coeditor of Indian Women of Early Mexico and Chimalpahin's Conquest: A Nahua Historian's Rewriting of Francisco LOpez de GOmara's "La Conquista de MExico.


Book Information
ISBN 9780806169187
Author don Domingo de San Anton Munon Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin
Format Paperback
Page Count 258
Imprint University of Oklahoma Press
Publisher University of Oklahoma Press
Weight(grams) 333g
Dimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 25mm