Crónica Mexicana

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The Crónica Mexicana is a work on the pre- Hispanic history of central Mexico in Spanish, written by Hernando de Alvarado Tezozómoc , a descendant of the ruling families of Tenochtitlán .

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The work tells the story of the Mexica or Aztecs from their emigration from their mythical place of origin to the arrival of the Spanish conquerors in a broad manner based on European models . However, the actual conquest is no longer included. The work has such strong substantive similarities to the historical work of the Spanish Dominican Diego Duran on that both works as well as the shorter historical summary of Juan de Tovar by the American historian Robert Barlow on a common, but unknown template 1945 Crónica X are returned.

Manuscript history

The manuscript from the private Hans P. Kraus Collection, which is most likely to be regarded as the original, has been donated to the Library of Congress since the 1970s .

The history of the manuscript should be like running this: written in 1598 it became the property of from Texcoco originating mestizo historian Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxochitl . His son gave his father's collection directly or through other people to the Mexican historian Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora , after whose death it was transferred to the Jesuit college of San Pedro y San Pablo in Mexico City around 1700 . Then the trace of the manuscript is lost until it ends up in the possession of the Spanish aristocratic family of the Condes de Revillagigedo around 1940 at the collector Kraus.

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There are several editions, but no German translation. The first edition is based on the best text in the Library of Congress:

  • Vázquez Chamorro, Germán, Gonzalo Día Migoyo: Crónica mexicana de Hernando Alvarado Tezozómoc . Madrid, Dastin 2001. ISBN 844-920-216-4 This edition is based on the text of the Library of Congress and can be consulted on-line: http://www.artehistoria.com/v2/contextos/11502.htm
  • Fernando Alvarado Tezozomoc: Crónica mexicana, precedidad del Códice Ramírez , ed. by Manuel Orozco y Berra. México 1878. (Reprints 1975, 1980)
  • Fernando Alvarado Tezozomoc: Crónica mexicana . México, UNAM 1943 (text modernized; reprints)

literature

  • Ursula Dyckerhoff : The "Cronica Mexicana" by Hernando Alvarado Tezozomoc, source-critical investigations. Hamburg 1970.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ DW McPheeters: An unknown early seventeenth-century codex of the Crónica Mexicana of Hernando Alvarado Tezozomoc . In: The Hispanic American Historical Review 34 (1954) pp. 506-512

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