Art and History of Colonial Latin America

From the Library of Congress. An eight-sheet document on amatl, a pre- European paper made in Mesoamerica. It is part of the testimony in a legal case against representatives of the colonial government in Mexico, ten years after the Spanish conquest in 1521.

Primarily in Spanish with some introductory material in English. E-book.

This chapter of the book, "The Harkness Collection in the Library of Congress" contains the full text of the Huexotzinco (Huejotzingo) Codex translated into English. E-book.

The Huexotzinco Codex is part of the testimony in a legal case against representatives of the colonial government in Mexico by the Nahua people of Huexotzinco. Scholars consider the codex to be the first pictorial representation of the Madonna and Child in the New World. In this webinar, cartography expert John Hessler examines the creation of the codex and its iconography.