Gerónimo de Mendieta's Historia eclesiástica indiana (written by 1596, first printed Mexico, 1870)

A Franciscan history of New Spain written under a written order from Rome, dedicated to a superior in 1611, and not printed until 1870 — 259 years between the dedication and the press. Its second book describes Nahua religion, law, schooling and marriage before any account of the conversion, and its index names the harm Spaniards did to the Indians in the same column as the favours of Charles V and Philip II.