Note 50 — THE AZTEC LAPIDARIES AND THEIR WORKS
Reading edition
This quotation is from the Libro de Oro y Tesoro Indico, a precious manuscript in the library of the late Joaquín García Icazbalceta. Icazbalceta writes as follows about the author: “We do not know who was Fr. Andrés de Alcobiz, who in the year 1543 collected in Spain these laws of the Mexicans. It is published in Nueva Colección de Documentos para la Historia de México, tomo III, p. 313, Mexico, 1891.