Note 1083 — Chapter III · (continued 2)

Bancroft, Native Races, ii. ch. 17 (pp. 542, 552) gives a good description of the Aztec system, with numerous references; but on this system, and on the hieroglyphic element in general, see Gomara; Bernal Diaz; Motolinia in Icazbalceta’s Collection, i. 186, 209; Ternaux’s Collection, x. 250; Kingsborough, vi. 87; viii. 190; ix. 201, 235, 287, 325; Acosta, lib. vi. cap. 7; Sahagún, i. p. iv.; Torquemada, i. 29, 30, 36, 149, 253; ii. 263, 544; Las Casas’s Hist. Apologética; Purchas’s Pilgrimes, iii. 1069; iv. 1135; Clavigero, ii. 187; Robertson’s America; Boturini’s Idea, pp. 5, 77, 87, 96, 112, 116; Humboldt’s Vues, i. 177, 192; Veytia, i. 6, 250; Gallatin in Am. Ethn. Soc. Trans. i. 126, 165; Prescott’s Mexico, i. ch. 4; Brasseur’s Nat. Civ., i. pp. xv, xvii; Domenech’s Manuscrit pictographique, introd.; Mendoza, in the Boletin Soc. Mex. Geog., 2de ed. i. 896; Madier de Montjau’s Chronologie hiéroglyphico-phonetic des rois Aztèques, de 1322 à 1522, with an introduction “sur l’Ecriture Méxicaine;” Lubbock’s Prehistoric Times, 279, and his Origin of Civilization, ch. 2; E. B. Tylor’s Researches into the Early Hist. of Mankind, 89; Short’s No. Amer. of Antiq., ch. 8; Müller’s Chips, i. 317; The Abbé Jules Pipart in Compte-rendu, Congrès des Amér. 1877, ii. 346; Isaac Taylor’s Alphabets; Foster’s Prehistoric Races, 322; Nadaillac, 376, not to cite others. Bandelier has discussed the Mexican paintings in his paper “On the sources for aboriginal history of Spanish America” in Am. Asso. Adv. Science, Proc., xxvii. (1878). See also Peabody Mus. Reports, ii. 631; and Orozco y Berra’s “Códice Mendozino” in the Anales del Museo Nacional, vol. i. Mrs. Nuttall’s views are in the Peabody Mus., Twentieth Report, p. 567. Quaritch (Catal. 1885, nos. 29040, etc.) advertised some original Mexican pictures; a native MS. pictorial record of a part of the Tezcuco domain (supposed a.d. 1530), and perhaps one of the “pinturas” mentioned by Ixtlilxochitl; a colored Mexican calendar on a single leaf of the same supposed date and origin; with other MSS. of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. (Cf. also his Catal., Jan., Feb., 1888.)