The Maya chronicles
By: edited by Daniel G. Brinton.
Publisher: AMS Press
Published: 1969
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
Subjects: Maya language -- Texts.; Maya language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; Mayas -- History.
Notes: Reprint of the 1882 ed., which was issued as no. 1 of Library of aboriginal American literature.
Selections from the books of Chilam Balam of Mani, Tizimin and Chumayel, respectively (p. [79]-185) including only the consecutive series of katuns that record ancient historical events in Yucatan. To these chronicles is added "The chronicle of Chac Xulub Chen [i.e. a history of the town of Chicxulub and of the conquest of the country] by N. Pech, 1562" (p. [187]-259) The Mayan text of each chronicle is followed by the editor's English translation and notes; in English and Mayan.