e. A synchronical history of Tepechpan and of Mexico, on Indian paper, accompanied by a copy made by Pichardo and an outline sketch of that in the Museo Nacional.
Without specifying others which Aubin enumerates, he gives as other acquisitions the following in particular:—
a. Pichardo’s copy of a Codex Mexicanus, giving the history of the Mexicans from their leaving Aztlan to 1590.
b. An original Mexican history from the departure from Aztlan to 1569.
c. Fragments which had belonged to Sigüenza.
[905] Notice sur une Collection, etc., p. 12.
[906] Hist. des Nations Civilisées (i. pp. xxxi, lxxvi, etc.; cf. Müller’s Chips, i. 317, 320, 323). Brasseur in the same place describes his own collection; and it may be further followed in his Bibl. Mex.-Guat., and in the Pinart Catalogue. Dr. Brinton says that we owe much for the preservation during late years of Maya MSS. to Don Juan Pio Perez, and that the best existing collection of them is that of Canon Crescencio Carrillo y Ancona. José F. Ramirez (see Vol. II. p. 398) is another recent Mexican collector, and his MSS. have been in one place and another in the market of late years. Quaritch’s recent catalogues reveal a number of them, including his own MS. Catálogo de Colecciones (Jan., 1888, no. 171), and some of his unpublished notes on Prescott, not included in those “notas y ecclarecimientos” appended to Navarro’s translation of the Conquest of Mexico (Catal., 1885, no. 28,502). The several publications of Léon de Rosny point us to scattered specimens. In his Doc. écrits de l’Antiquité Amér. he gives the fac-simile of a colored Aztec map. A MS. in the collection of the Corps Legislatif, in Paris, and that of the Codex Indiæ Meridionalis are figured in his Essai sur le déchiffrement, etc. (pl. ix, x). In the Archives de la Soc. Amér. de France, n. s., vol. i., etc., we find plates of the Mappe Tlotzin, and a paper of Madier de Montjau, “sur quelques manuscrits figuratifs de l’Ancien Méxique.” Cf. also Anales del Museo, viii.
Cf. for further mention of collections the Revue Orientale et Américaine; Cyrus Thomas in the Am. Antiquarian, May, 1884 (vol. vi.); and the more comprehensive enumeration in the introduction to Domenech’s Manuscrit pictographique. Orozco y Berra, in the introduction to his Geografia de las Lenguas y Carta Etnográfica (Mexico, 1864), speaks of the assistance he obtained from the collections of Ramirez and of Icazbalceta.
[907] See Vol. II. p. 418.
[908] See Vol. II. p. 418. Bandelier calls this French version “utterly unreliable.”