“Indigenous Farmers of Tultepec vs. Rancher Juan Antonio Covarrubias, showing lands in the Tultepec and Xaltocan regions adjacent to the Hacienda de Santa Inés.” Newberry Library Ayer MS 1801 map 1
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“Indigenous Farmers of Tultepec vs. Rancher Juan Antonio Covarrubias, showing lands in the Tultepec and Xaltocan regions adjacent to the Hacienda de Santa Inés.” Newberry Library Ayer MS 1801 map 1 |
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Drawing upon the Newberry Library’s extraordinary colonial Mexican materials, The Aztecs and the Making of Colonial Mexico used an awe-inspiring array of religious, historical, and legal documents produced by, for, and about the Nahua to demonstrate how they preserved their language, culture, identity, and history after the Spanish conquest.
Individuals wishing to view Newberry items displayed in the exhibit are welcome to do so in accordance with our Reading Room access guidelines.
• The Pictorial Books of the Aztecs¦Los libros pictográficos de los aztecas
Codex Borbonicus (facsimile edition)
Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck - u. Verlagsanstalt, 1974
[Central Mexico, after 1521]
Loan from Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago
• Europeans Invade the Aztec Empire ¦Los europeos invaden el imperio azteca
Hernán Cortés. “Cortés’ 1524 Map of Tenochtitlan” in Praeclara Ferdin¯adi Cortesii de Noua maris Oceani Hyspania narratio [...]
Nuremberg, Germany: Friedrich Peypus, 1524
Newberry Library: Ayer 655.51 .C8 1524d
Abraham Ortelius. “America Sive Novi Orbis” from Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
Antwerp: Christophe Plantin, 1580 [German edition]
Newberry Library: Fitzgerald Map 2F G3290 1570 .O7
Hernán Cortés. Carta Tercera de Relación
Seville: Juan Cromberger, 1523
Newberry Library: Ayer 655.51 .C8 1523
Pietro Martire d’Anghiera. De Orbe Nouo Decades
Alcalá de Henares, Spain: Miguel de Eguía, 1530
Newberry Library: vault Ayer 111 .A5 1530
Codex Mendoza (facsimile edition)
Frances F. Berdan and Patricia Rieff Anawalt, editors
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992 [1540s]
Newberry Library: Ayer folio F1219.56.C625 C64 1992
Francisco López de Gómara. Historia general de las Indias
Zaragoza, Spain: Agustín Millán, 1553
Newberry Library: vault Ayer 108 .G6 1553 vol. 2
Bernal Díaz del Castillo. Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España
Madrid: Imprenta del Reyno, 1632
Newberry Library: vault Ayer 655.51 .D5 1632
Hernán Cortés. Cuarta relación
Valencia: Jorge Costilla, 1526
Newberry Library: Ayer F *655.51 .C8 1526
• Christianizing the Nahua ¦ La evangelización de los nahuas
Unidentified Autor. Trilingual manuscript copy of Antonio de Nebrija’s Dictionarium ex Hispaniensi in Latinum sermonem
Central Mexico, ca. 1540
Newberry Library: vault Ayer MS 1478
Alonso de Molina. Vocabulario de la lengva castellana y mexicana
Mexico: Juan Pablo, 1555
Newberry Library: Ayer 871 .A952 M7 1555
Alonso de Molina. Arte de la lengua mexicana y castellana
Mexico: Pedro de Ocharte, 1571
Newberry Library: vault Ayer 871 .A953 M7 1571
Alonso de Molina. Confesionario breve
Mexico: Antonio de Espinoza, 1565
Newberry Library: vault Ayer 871 .A955 C35 M7 1565
Catholic Church. Epistolae et Evangelia
Central Mexico, 16th century
Newberry Library: vault Ayer MS 1467
Bernardino de Sahún. Ejercicio en lengua mexicana
Central Mexico, 1574
Newberry Library: Ayer MS 1484
Bernardino de Sahagún. Sermones de dominicas y de santos en lengua mexicana
Central México, 1563 [1548]
Newberry Library: vault oversize Ayer MS 1485
Bernardino de Sahagún. Yn nemachtiliztlatolli [Educational and Instructive Speech, known in Spanish as Veinte adiciones]
Central Mexico, 1590
Newberry Library: Ayer MS 1486a
Bernardino de Sahagún. Appendix (Appendix Containing Doctrinal Admonitions for the Indians), 1590
Newberry Library: Ayer MS 1486d
Catholic Church. Graduale Dominicale
Mexico: Pedro Ocharte [1576]
Newberry Library: Case VM 2149.G73 1576
Diego Valadés. Rhetórica Christiana
Perugia: Pietro Giacopo Petrucci, 1579
Newberry Library: Wing ZP 535 .P447
Bernardino de Sahagún
Primeros Memoriales (facsimile edition)
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma, 1993 [Tepeapulco, Mexico,1559-61]
Newberry Library: Ayer folio F1219.73 .S24 1993
Bernardino de Sahagún
General History of the Things of New Spain [Florentine Codex] (facsimile edition)
Mexico: Archivo General de la Nación, 1979 [Mexico City, 1575-77]
Newberry Library: Ayer folio F1229 .S23 1979 vol. 1-3
• Persistence of Indigenous Culture ¦ La tenacidad de la cultura indígena
“The Will of Don Miguel Damián”
Ink and watercolor on amatl, 1576
Xochimilco
Newberry Library: vault oversize Ayer MS 1900
“Genealogy of Pedronilla Francisca Tenuch and her mother-in-law, Juliana Tlaco”
Ink and watercolor on amatl, 1575
Newberry Library: vault oversize Ayer MS 1902
“Pedronilla’s Claims”
Ink and watercolor on amatl, 1575
Newberry Library: vault oversize Ayer MS 1901
“The Will of Don Miguel Damián” and “Juliana's Property Claims” in E. Eugène Goupil Documents pour servir à l'histoire du Mexique
Paris: E. Leroux, 1891
[Ink and watercolor on amatl, 1576]
Newberry Library: Ayer 507 .B6 1891
“Map of Property from Will of Juan de la Cruz, Teocaltitlan, Mexico City” in Documents pertaining to property in Teocaltitlan and San Pedro de Calimaya [manuscript], 1678-1781
Ink on European paper, 1678
Newberry Library: Ayer MS 1477 folder 1
“Indigenous Farmers of Tultepec vs. Rancher Juan Antonio Covarrubias, showing lands in the Tultepec and Xaltocan regions adjacent to the Hacienda de Santa Inés”
Pen-and-ink and watercolor on European paper backed with amatl, 1569
Newberry Library (Gift of Art and Jan Holzheimer): vault Ayer 1801 Map 1
“Irrigated Lands Adjacent to the Town of San Francisco [adjacent to the Hacienda de Santa Inés]”
Pen-and-ink on European paper, ca. 1569
Newberry Library (Gift of Art and Jan Holzheimer) : Ayer MS 1801 Map 2
“Map of Unidentified Place [probably central Mexico]”
Colored inks on amatl, 16th c.[?]
Newberry Library: vault Oversize Ayer MS 1903
“Map of the Temascaltepec Mining Region in Mexico”
Pen-and-ink and watercolor on amatl, ca. 1560 [?]
Newberry Library: vault Oversize Ayer MS 1906
“Cuitlahuac Account Book Page, April 1575” in Documents pertaining to community affairs of Cuitlahuac, Tlalmanalco de Velázquez, and Tláhuac in the province of Chalco
Cuitlahuac, Mexico 1551-1858
Newberry Library: Ayer MS 1476
Registry of Matrimony
Tlatelolco, Mexico City: 1632-33
Newberry Library: MS 1481 b (1f)
“Parochial Register of Deaths, Tepejí del Río (Hidalgo, Mexico)” [Libro donde se asientan los que se mueren en este pueblo de Tepexic desde março de 1605 en adelante]
Hidalgo, Mexico, 1605-1642
Newberry Library: vault Ayer MS 1491
Protest by Indian nobles against conditions in Mexico
Mexico City and Texcoco: 1570
Newberry Library: MS 1481 F3 a&b
Petition for Residents of Tototepeque
Tulancingo, 1667
Newberry Library: Ayer MS 1884 Doc 14
Queen Juana and King Phillip II. Concessions and privileges granted to the Tlaxcalan Indians by the Spanish monarchs
Tlaxcala, 1732-1808
Newberry Library: vault Ayer MS 1162b
Map of San Francisco Mazapan (Teotihuacan)
Ink on amatl, ca. 1700-1767
Newberry Library: vault oversize Ayer MS 1907
Codex Zempoala
Ink on amatl, ca. 1700-43
Newberry Library: vault Ayer MS 1472
Codex Tepotzotlan
Ink on amatl, ca. 1720
Valley of Mexico
Newberry Library: vault Ayer MS 1479
“The Nopal plant that is grown in America and produces cochineal [Nopal planta que se cria en la America y produce la Grana]” in Reports on the history, organization, and status of various Catholic dioceses of New Spain and Peru, 1620-1649
Newberry Library: vault Ayer MS 1106 D8 Box 1 Folder 15
“Cochineal is placed on the new plants: March and April” in Pintura del beneficio de la grana cochinilla en Mexico
watercolor, ca. 1775
Newberry Library: vault Ayer MS 2178
José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez. “Indian Collecting Cochineal with a Deer Tail” and “Preparing the Cochineal for Dye,” in Memoria sobre la naturaleza, cultivo, y beneficio de la grana (...)
Colored pigment on vellum, 1777
Newberry Library: vault Ayer MS 1031
Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Cuauhtlehuanitzin
Copy and edition of Francisco López de Gómara's Conquista de México
Xoloco, 1740
Newberry Library: vault folio Case MS 5011
“Abraham and Isaac”
Faustino Chimalpopoca Galicia, translator
Mexico City: 1856 [1678]
Newberry Library: Ayer MS 1481 a2
Izcatqui in icuepca in Pater Noster
[Mexico City]: Reimpressas en la imprenta nueva de la Bibliotheca mexicana, enfrente de San Augustín, 1755
Newberry Library: Ayer broadside PM4068.1 .I93 1755
“Genealogy of the Emperor Moctecuzoma” 1885 and “Portrait of Moctezuma Xocoyotzin” steel engraving, pre-1879 from Documents to support the claim of José María Lizaula to a pension granted to the heirs of the Emperor Moctezuma [manuscript] 1531-1885
Newberry Library: vault Ayer MS 1168 Doc. 1 and 2
• Contemporary Expressions of Nahua Culture ¦ Expresiones contemporáneas de la cultura nahua
Enrique Chagoya and Guillermo Gómez-Peña. Friendly Cannibals
San Francisco: Art Space Books, 1996
Loan courtesy of Ellen T. Baird
Leandro Katz. Libro Quemado: Burnt Book
Atlanta: Nexus Press, 1995
Newberry Library (Gift of Ellen T. Baird)
Delfino Hernández Hernández. “Xochitlajtouani: El Poeta” in Yancuic Nahua Zazanilli: Nueva Narrativa
Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, 1985
Newberry Library: PM4068.H47
Curandero Sr. Alfonso García Téllez. Historia de una vivienda para hacer una ofrenda al Santo Tecuil
Ink on amatl, 1981
Loan courtesy of Ellen T. Baird
Felipe Ehrenberg. Codex Aeroscriptus Ehrenbergensis: A Visual Score of Iconotropisms
Atlanta: Nexus Press, 1990
Newberry Library (Gift of Ellen T. Baird)
Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Enrique Chagoya, and Felicia Rice. Codex Espangliensis
San Francisco: City Light Books, 2000
Loan courtesy of Ellen T. Baird
Enrique Chagoya. The Adventures of the Modernist Cannibals (Les Adventures des Cannibales Modernistes)
Lithograph, chine collé and woodcut on amatl, 1999
Loan courtesy of Ellen T. Baird