Chimalpahin's sixth and seventh relations: a Nahua lord's annals of Chalco Amaquemecan, 1258-1612

Chimalpahin, born at Amaquemecan in 1579 and descended from its rulers, wrote his own altepetl's history in Nahuatl, in the alphabet the friars had brought, keeping the Nahua year count and the Christian year in one line: year 6 rabbit, 1550, the viceroy arrives, the Amaquemeque dance for him, people die of quinsy, the Dominicans come. Almost nothing is known of his life, and the annals were first printed in 1889 — in Paris, in French, from a manuscript by then in a French private collection.