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Excerpt from Mexican Picture-Chronicle of Cempoallan and Other States of the Empire of Aculhuacan Concerning the origin and history of the manuscript which is here reproduced, before it came into the possession of the well-known Americanist Brasseur de Bourbourg (in whose Bibliotheque mexico-guatémalienne it is described on p. We know positively nothing. From the matter which it contains, the character of the writing, and the nature of the material on which the pictures are drawn, we can, however, form a fairly safe conjecture, that our picture-chronicle was written towards 1530 for the prince Yxtlilxochitl of Tezcuco, called by some writers Yxtlilxochitl II, or Don Fernando Cortes Yxtlilxochitl, last king of Acolhuacan. His collection of painted and written records passed into the possession of his great-grandson Don Fernando de Alva Yxtlilxochitl, the historian, whose Relaciones have been printed by Kingsborough. At the death of the latter, they were acquired by the celebrated Jesuit writer Don Carlos Siguenza whose library of Mexican mss. Was probably superior to any other that has been formed since. Siguenza died in 1700, leaving his mss. To the Jesuit College of ss. Peter and Paul in Mexico; before 1750 many had been alienated or lost; and after the Revolution most of them disappeared. We suspect that our Mexican Picture Chronicle belonged successively to the two Yxtlilxochitls, and to Siguenza, before it came into the hands of Brasseur, -of Pinart, and of the present owner. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We