b. Annals of Mexico, written apparently in 1528 by one who had taken part in the defence of Mexico (an original).
c. Several historical narratives on European paper, by Domingo Chimalpain, coming down to a.d. 1591, which have in great part been translated by Aubin, who considers them the most important documents which we possess.
d. A history of Colhuacan and Mexico, lacking the first leaf. This is described as being in the handwriting of Ixtlilxochitl, and Aubin gives the dates of its composition as 1563 and 1570. It is what has later been known as the Codex Chimalpopoca.
e. Zapata’s history of Tlaxcalla.
f. A copy by Loaysa of an original, from which Torquemada has copied several chapters.
[904] The chief of the Boturini acquisition he enumerates as follows:—
a. Toltec annals on fifty leaves of European paper, cited by Gama in his Descripcion histórica. Cf. Brasseur, Nations Civilisées, p. lxxvi.
b. Chichimec annals, on Indian paper, six leaves, of which ten pages consist of pictures, the original so-called Codex Chimalpopoca, of which Gama made a copy, also in the Aubin collection, as well as Ixtlilxochitl’s explanation of it. Aubin says that he has used this account of Ixtlilxochitl to rectify that historian’s blunders.
c. Codex on Indian paper, having a picture of the Emperor Xolotl.
d. A painting on prepared skin, giving the genealogy of the Chichimecan chiefs, accompanied by the copies made by Pichardo and Boturini. Cf. Archives de la Soc. Amér. de France, 2d ser., i. 283.