SELER] MEXICAN PICTURE WRITINGS FRAGMENTS III, IV 177 



number 2, section 20, in the Catalogo del Miiseo Indiano del Cavallero 

 Boturini, somewhat more in detail. He says there: Otro mapa muy 

 grande de una pieza, y maltratado a los dos lados, de papel grueso 

 indiano. Tiene de largo algo mas de ocho varas, y de ancho dos 

 varas y quarta, y trata con toscas pinturas de las crueles guerras de la 

 gentilidad entre diferentes pueljlos, cuyos nombres son Hecatepec, 

 Huyatepec, Amoltepec, NientLah, Tzatzaqualan, Hueymctlan, Colte- 

 pec, Antlacaltepec, Tepechalla, Xiquipilco, Achalalan, Zayntepec, 

 Teconhuac, Totolhuitzecan, Yahueyocan, Zacatzolah, Mazapila, y 

 despues de haver demonstrado con unos rios de sangre, assi lo cruento 

 de la guerra, como de los prisioneros sacrificados, apunta la llegada 

 del gran Cortes, y de los Padres de San Francisco en Quauhmanco, 

 etc. ("Another map, very large, in one piece, in bad condition at both 

 sides, on thick Indian paper. It is some 8 ells long and 2|- ells 

 wide, and treats in rude paintings of the cruel wars of the gentry 

 with various tribes, whose names are Hecatepec, Huyatepec, Amol- 

 tepec, Nientlah, Tzatzaqualan, Hueymetlan, Coltepec, Antlacaltepec, 

 Tepechalla, Xiquipilco, AclnMalan, Zayutepec, Teconhuac, Totol- 

 huitzecan, Yahueyocan, Zacatzotlah, Mazapila, and after having 

 shown by rivers of blood both the cruel natu.re of the war and the 

 prisoners who were sacrificed, it relates to the coming of the great 

 Cortes and of the Franciscan fathers to Quauhmanco, etc.")" 



That these descriptions refer to the nuinuscript of which fragments 

 III (plate viii) and IV (plate ix) of the present collection are parts 

 follows from the general characterization of the manuscript and from 

 the reference to the rivers of blood (rios de sangre). which are indeed 

 very conspicuous on our page; unfortunately, they are not as obvious 

 in the uncolored photographic reproduction. This is clearly proved 

 by the fact that three of the names of places mentioned by Boturini 

 are actually mentioned in the explanatory notes of our fragment III. 

 The last three places mentioned by Boturini, Yahuayohca, Zacateotlah, 

 and Mazapillah (I read the names thus), are the ones that occur on 

 the fragment. Our fragment nuist belong to one of the original 

 lateral margins of the manuscript. The missing pieces, which nuist 

 be ver}^ considerable, since in Boturini's time the whole measured 8 

 ells in length and 2:1 ^11^ ii^ width, are extant elsewhere, whether intact 

 or not I can not say. The Museo Nacional de Mexico possesses large 

 portions of them. I saw copies of them last year iu the Mexican de- 

 partment of the American historical exhibition at Madrid, and other 

 parts — as it seems, very important ones, taken from Avhat was origi- 

 nally the middle — I saw years ago in the Biblioteca Nacional in 

 Mexico. 



Boturini states that there had been in his possession a second, similar 



Idea de una, nueva liistoria general de la America septentrional. App., pp. 38, .30. 

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