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The calculation by which it is found is quoted from the later portion of the “Codex Chimalpopoca” as follows: “Six times 400 years plus 113 years” previous to the year 1558 A.D. This is given as the date of a division of the land by the Nahuas.
These stones which I the King Nezahualcoyotl have succeeded in uniting in loving liens, Are the famous princes, the one called Axaxacatzin, the other Chimalpopoca, and Xicomatzintlamata. To-day, somewhat rejoiced by the joy and words of these, and of the other lords who were with them, I feel, when alone, that my soul is pleased but for a brief time, and that all pleasure soon passes.
It does not appear to be complete, but my efforts to have it collated with the original have not been successful. Another copy was taken by the late well-known Mexican scholar Faustino Chimalpopoca, which was in the possession of Señor Ramirez and sold at the vendue of his books in 1880. It is No. 511 of the catalogue.
Three are specified as particularly valuable to students of American antiquity: that called the “Codex Chimalpopoca,” an old Toltec book, written in the Toltec language; one now entitled the “Codex Cakchiquel;” and the “Popol-Vuh.” The latter, written in the Quiché dialect, was translated into Spanish two hundred years ago by Ximenes, but his translation remained in Guatemala unprinted and quite unknown until it was discovered in our time.
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