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)
Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse
Central America -- Bibliography; Mayas -- Antiquities; Yucatán (Mexico : State) -- Bibliography
BERNAL DIEZ DEL CASTILLO. "Historia verdadera de la Conquista de Nueva
España," Madrid, 1632. (There may be two editions of the same year).
Of the Spanish reprints I mention here (also contained in
"Historiadores primitivos de Indias," Vedia, 1852, Vol. II.), the one
of 1837, Paris, 4 Vols. 12^o, and the other of 1854, México, 4 vols.
also.--Two English translations are known to me at present: "The True
History of the Conquest of Mexico, by Captain Bernal Diez del
Castillo," translated by Maurice Keatings, London, 1800.--"The Memoirs
of the Conquistador, Bernal Diez del Castillo," translated by John
Ingram Lockhart, London, 1844.--There is also a German translation, by
P. J. Rehfuss, Bonn, 1838.--Bernal Diez (not Diaz) is very valuable as
eye-witness, having been to Yucatan with Cordoba (1517), Grijalva
(1518), Cortés (1519),--and finally with the latter to Honduras,
passing through Peten.
FRAY LORENZO DE BIENVIDA. Letter to the Infanto Philip (II.), dated
Yucatan, 10 February, 1548. Original in MS. French translation by H.
Ternaux-Compans in "1^{er} Recueil de Piéces concernant le Méxique,"
Vol. X. 1838, of his collection of "Mémoires et documents Originaux,
&c., &c."
GONZALO FERNANDEZ DE OVIEDO Y VALDÉS. "Historia General y natural de
las Indias," composed of 50 books.--The first 19 books, and part of
the 50th, were published by the author as early as 1535,--and the
first 20 books as early as 1557,--but the entire work has only been
printed in 1851, at Madrid, 4 Vols. folio.--It is full of details
concerning Yucatan.
FRANCISCO LOPEZ DE GOMARA. "Historia general de las Indias, y todo lo
acaescido en ellas dende que se ganaron hasta agora. Y la conquista de
México, y de la nueva España, &c." Zaragoza, 1552.--Of this book I
quote--e. g.--the following Spanish editions: Medina del Campo, 1553,
Antwerp, 2 prints, 1554--Zaragoza, 1555,--and it is also contained in
"Historiadores primitivos de Indias," by Andrés Gonzalez Barcia,
Madrid, 1749, Vol. II.--and in "Historiadores primitivos de Indias,"
by Vedia, Madrid, 1852, Vol. I.--There is an Italian version, by
Augustino de Cravaliz, Rome, 1556, ("La Histoirie generale delle Indie
Occidentali. &c., &c."), and French translations published
respectively in 1578, 1587, 1597, and 1605.--Finally, Juan Bautista de
San Anton Muñoz Chimalpain Guauhtlehuanitzin made a translation into
the Mexican, or "Nahuatl" language, which C. M. Bustamante published
at Mexico, in 1826.--I know of no English translation of the work.--It
actually consists of two parts, the "Historia General," and the
"Conquista de México."--The former contains a short, but fair,
description of Yucatan, and the latter a report on Cortés' doings
there and matters relating thereto.
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