The _second_ part was a copy of the Tribute Roll above referred to.
These pictures were given to other Indians for the interpretation of
their import, which was written down in the Nahuatl language, and
another person, well versed in both the Indian and Spanish languages,
made a translation into Spanish, which was incorporated in the book.
It was then despatched to Spain, probably about the year 1549, but the
vessel was captured by French pirates, and the book came into the hands
of the French geographer, André Thevet, in 1553. After Thevet’s death
it was purchased, about the year 1584, by Richard Hakluyt, at that time
chaplain to the English Ambassador to France. Hakluyt bequeathed the
volume to Samuel Purchas, who published it, without colors, with an
English translation of the text, in _Purchas His Pilgrimes_, London,
1625. The English text was translated into French and accompanied with
the plates was published by Melchisedec Thevenot in his _Relations des
Divers Voyages_, in 1663. The codex ultimately became the property
of Selden, and with some other original Mexican codices later became
a part of the Bodleian Library at Oxford, where it is now preserved.
In 1831, Lord Kingsborough issued it for the first time in colors,
together with a new and more accurate English rendering of the Spanish
text, in his monumental work on the _Antiquities of Mexico_.
The Tribute Roll was published by Archbishop Lorenzana in Mexico in
1770, in his edition of the _Cartas de Cortés_, the drawing, uncolored,
being traced in a very inferior manner from the original in Mexico.
Finally, Dr. Antonio Peñafiel included a beautiful colored facsimile of
the Tribute Roll in his work, _Monumentos del Arte Mexicano Antiguo_,
published in Berlin in 1890, the missing leaves, in Philadelphia,
being reproduced from a very poor drawing of the codex on European
paper, probably executed for Boturini. These leaves were published in
exact facsimile in 1892, with an article entitled, The Tribute Roll of
Montezuma, edited by Dr. D. G. Brinton and Henry Phillips, in vol. XVII
of the _Transactions of the American Philosophical Society_.
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