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Notes on the Bibliography of Yucatan and Central America: Comprising Yucatan, Chiapas, Guatemala (the Ruins of Palenque, Ocosingo, and Copan), and Oaxaca (Ruins of Mitla) — John Shaqi

Notes on the Bibliography of Yucatan and Central America: Comprising Yucatan, Chiapas, Guatemala (the Ruins of Palenque, Ocosingo, and Copan), and Oaxaca (Ruins of Mitla)Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse

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Notes on the Bibliography of Yucatan and Central America: Comprising Yucatan, Chiapas, Guatemala (the Ruins of Palenque, Ocosingo, and Copan), and Oaxaca (Ruins of Mitla)

Name: Notes on the Bibliography of Yucatan and Central America: Comprising Yucatan, Chiapas, Guatemala (the Ruins of Palenque, Ocosingo, and Copan), and Oaxaca (Ruins of Mitla)
Author: Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse

Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse

Central America -- Bibliography; Mayas -- Antiquities; Yucatán (Mexico : State) -- Bibliography

I repeat it, this attempt at a bibliography on Yucatecan antiquities
is far from being complete,--many works of greater or less importance
having probably been overlooked.




CHIAPAS.


This district or State contains the well known ruins of Palenque and
Ocosingo. Still, but very few of the works hereafter mentioned relate
to these places. It is therefore a bibliography of Chiapas and of its
aborigines:--Zendal, Zoques, Zotzil, Chiapanecos, &c., and not a
special bibliography of Palenque, &c., which I intend to
present,--convinced that our lack of knowledge on the aborigines of
Chiapas in general is a chief cause of our ignorance about the past
history of these remains.

A large number of authors treating of Chiapas have already been
noticed in regard to Yucatan, and in such cases I merely give the
author's name, without the title or any other reference to his works,
except when there are special reasons for it.


_Writers of the Sixteenth Century._

DIEGO DE GODOY. "Relacion á Hernando Cortez, en que trata del
Descubrimiento de diversas Ciudades i Provincias, i Guerra que tuvo
con los Indios, &c., de la Provincia de Chamula."--First incorporated
in the "Historia general" of Oviedo y Valdés, again in Barcia's
"Historiadores primitivos de Indias," and in "Historiadores primitivos
de Indias" of Vedia.--French translation by Ternaux-Compans, in
1^{st}, "Recueil de pièces concernant la Méxique, &c."--Also Italian
in "Ramusio," Vol. III.

GONZALO FERNANDEZ DE OVIEDO Y VALDÉS.

HERNAN CORTÉZ.--"Carta quinta."

FRANCISCO LOPEZ DE GOMARA.

BERNAL DIEZ DEL CASTILLO. (Eye-witness of the conquest of Chiapa.)

BARTOLOMÉ DE LAS CASAS. (Especially the "Apologética historia.")

GERÓNIMO DE MENDIETA. (Incidental mention.)

In the 2d "_Recueil de piecés concernant le Méxique_," of
Ternaux-Compans, there is a complaint or letter of an anonymous author
against Las Casas, dated Chiapas.--I also refer to "_Cartas de
Indias_," Vol. I., containing several letters of Las Casas himself.

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There is, in fact, but very little published about the antiquities of
Chiapas, during the 16th century. I do not even mention any of the
general collections which have an occasional reference to the name.
But few vocabularies are noticed. Still we are informed of the
following works, which may yet be in existence, or which at all events
have existed once, and were written during the 16th century.

FRAY TOMÁS TORRE. "Historia de los principios de la Provincia de
Chiapas y Guatemala, del Orden de Santo Domingo."

FRAY DOMINGO VICO. "Historia de los Indios, sus fábulas,
supersticiones, costumbres, &c., &c."

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Notes on the Bibliography of Yucatan and Central America: Comprising Yucatan, Chiapas, Guatemala (the Ruins of Palenque, Ocosingo, and Copan), and Oaxaca (Ruins of Mitla)

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