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Chimalpahin.

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Chimalpahin.
Principal English Translation: 

don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin has been called the greatest Nahua annalist of the Spanish colonial period, active in the first third of the seventeenth century

See Sell's comments in Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 20.

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