Fray Toribio de Parades, surnamed Motolinia. ("Historia de los Indios de la Nueva-España." See bibliography of Yucatan.)—This is probably the earliest mention of the ruins of Mitla, which were, however, inhabited at that time. Motolinia has been entirely overlooked by Bancroft, although his description of Mitla is truly excellent.
Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdés. (Casual notice.)
Codex Chimalpopoca. Now in process of publication, in the "Anales del Museo Nacional de México." Vol. II., by Mendoza, Sanchez Solís, and Chavero.
Juan de Tobar. "Códice Ramirez,"—published by Sr J. M. Vigil, as an anonymous chronicle, in 1878. Also "Historia de los Indios Mexicanos." Original in possession of the Estate of Sir Thomas Phillips, at Cheltenham, England. Copy of a fragment, privately printed, at the Lenox Library, New York. (Written between 1579 and 1589.)
Diego Durán. "Historia de las Indias de Nueva-España, é Yslas de Tierra firme."—(Written between 1579 and 1581, but only the first part of it printed, at Mexico, 1867, by Sr José Fr Ramirez.)—Very important; mentions again Mitla as a settlement inhabited about 1450. "Apéndice" por Alfredo Chavaro, México, 1880.
Fernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc. "Crónica mexicana."—Written 1598. Printed for the first time in Vol. IX. of Kingsborough, and again (though not complete) in the "Biblioteca mexicana" of Sr Vigil, with notes by Sr Orozco y Berra.—A French translation has been made by Ternaux-Compans, under the title of "Histoire du Méxique, par Alvarado Tezozomoc," Paris, 1853, 2 vols. It is utterly unreliable.
Fray Gerónimo de Mendieta. (Copies textually from Motolinia.)
Fray Bernardino Sahagun. "Historia universal de las Cosas de Nueva-España," in Vols. 6 and 8 of Kingsborough.—The same book, under the title of "Historia general, &c., &c." appeared at Mexico, in 3 vols., 1829, edited by C. M. de Bustamante. Only very slight and casual mention of Oajaca.
Writers of the Seventeenth Century.
Augustin Dávila-Padilla.