In the Shadow of Cortes
Items in the In the Shadow of Cortes Collection
El libro del ciuacoatl
Facsimile (1991) of the Codex Borbonicus. Original manuscript at the Bibliothèque de l'Assemblée Nationale, Paris.
Codex Mendoza
Facsimile (1992) of the Codex Mendoza. Original document at the Bodleian Library, Oxford University.
The History of the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards
English edition (1724) of Historia de la conquista de México (History of the Conquest of Mexico) by Antonio de Solís, translated by Thomas Townsend, first published 1684.
Codex Mendoza
Facsimile (1992) of the Codex Mendoza. Original document at the Bodleian Library, Oxford University.
Reuerendi fratris Baptistae Mantuani Carmelitae De patientia aurei libri tres
De patientia (About Patience) by Baptista Mantuanus, 1497.
Cuba insula, Hispaniola insula, Insula Iamaica, Ins. S. Ioannis, I.S. Margareta cum confiniis
Maps of the islands of Cuba, Hispaniola [Haiti and the Dominican Republic], Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and Saint Margarita by Abraham Ortelius, 1611.
In hoc opere haec continentur Geographiae Cl. Ptolemaei a plurimis uiris utriusq[ue] linguae doctiss eme[n]data
![In hoc opere haec continentur Geographiae Cl. Ptolemaei a plurimis uiris utriusq[ue] linguae doctiss eme[n]data](https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/files/thumbnails/2c285ab2e0272305c9f49e5c001d1555.jpg "In hoc opere haec continentur Geographiae Cl. Ptolemaei a plurimis uiris utriusq[ue] linguae doctiss eme[n]data")
Modern map of the world by Johannes Ruysch. In the Geographia of Claudius Ptolemy, 1508.
Terzo volvme delle navigationi et viaggi raccolto gia da m. Gio. Battista Ramvsio
Second letter from Hernán Cortés to Charles V of Spain, dated October 30, 1520. In Terzo volvme delle navigationi et viaggi (Third Volume of Navigations and Travels) by Giovanni Battista Ramusio, 1565.
Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España
Modern edition (1982) of the Spanish text and images from the Florentine Codex, published as Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España (General History of the Things of New Spain) by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, first published…