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Exploring the Early Americas The Jay I. Kislak Collection
History of Tlaxcala (64)

Diego Muñoz Camargo (ca. 1529–1599). Fragmentos de la Historia de Tlaxcala. 1852 manuscript copy of original ca. 1560–1592. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (64.00.02)

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History of Tlaxcala (64)
History of Tlaxcala (64)
History of Tlaxcala (64.00.02)
History of Tlaxcala (64.00.02)

History of Tlaxcala 

The son of a Spanish conquistador and an Indian woman, Diego Muñoz Camargo was educated as a Spaniard, but was also steeped in indigenous culture through his Indian family connections.  An historian and interpreter, he was also a government official and landholder in the Tlaxcala region of Mexico.  In this manuscript, written in the late sixteenth century, Muñoz Camargo covers the history of Tlaxcala, the events of the conquest (and the Tlaxcalan support of Cortés), as well as the natural and geographical background of the area.