The Maya chronicles of Yucatan: the books of Chilan Balam and the town chronicles kept in the Latin alphabet (printed Philadelphia 1882)

After the hieroglyphic books were burned, Maya towns went on keeping their own histories in Maya, in the alphabet the missions had taught them, and went on copying them into the eighteenth century. The chronicles that survive are the work of Maya writers, not of Spaniards; one of them records both the burnings and the royal auditor who came from Castile to stop them.