Located 120 miles from Tenochtitlan, Tecamachalco was one of many tributaries to the Mexica empire, and its annals were written towards the end of the sixteenth century. These two factors may account for the fact that its authors make no mention of Moctezuma, Cortés, or any interactions between the two parties at the time of the conquest, compared to the other four sets of annals. This seemingly lack of interest is relevant to the project for the purposes of comparison, and to elucidate further the different histories on the conquest that originated in later decades.
[1] Previous work on the
Anales includes García Icazbalceta (1892): Spanish translation of an extract from the original; a translation by Vicente de Paula Andrade; a partial translation covering years 1520-1558 (Spanish); a partial translation of the years 1399-1549 into Spanish by Galicia Chimalpopoca in
Handbook… vol. 15:371); paleography and morphological translation into Spanish by Antonio Peñafiel (1903), re-edition in 1981.