This article establishes the dates of creation and discovery for some Aztec writings. Please email me or comment if you have additional information you would like added.
1500s – Codex Tudela created
after 1500 – Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2 created
around 1520 – Codex Borbonicus created
after 1528? – Anales de Tlatelolco created
after 1529 – Codex Boturini created
1552 – Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis (Badianus Herbal Manuscript) created?
after 1553 – Codex of Tlatelolco created
around 1540 – Oztoticpac Lands Map of Texcoco created
around 1544 – Códice de Santa María Asunción created
mid-1500s – Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca created?
mid-1500s – Romances de los señores de Nueva España created
mid-1500s – Santa Cruz Map created
mid-1500s – Codex Magliabechiano created
1550-1556 – Santa Cruz Map created
after 1550s – Anales de Tlatelolco created (translated in 1956 and 1991)
1564 – Codex Totomixtlahuaca created
after 1566 – Codex Ríos created
1578 – Chavero Code of Huexotzingo created (donated in 1906 to National Museum of Mexico)
after 1580 – History of Tlaxcala created?
after 1580 – earliest copy of Crónica Mexicayotl created
1582 – Romances de los señores de Nueva España created
after 1583 – Codex Laud owned by William Laud
1585 – Florentine Codex creation complete (discovered by scholars in the late 1700s)
1702 – first mention of Codex Azcatitlan
1746 – Crónica Mexicayotl copy first published
after 1790 – Codex Fejérvary-Mayer discovered
late 1700s – Codex Chimalpopoca copied (original lost)
1805 – Codex Borgia discovered
1814 – earliest date Codex Osuna known to be owned (created after 1564)
1831 – Codex Mendoza rediscovered (created after 1528)
1840 – Codex Xolotl first brought to Europe
1847 – Ramírez Codex first published
1890s – Lienzo de Quauhquechollan first mentioned
1893 – Aubin Codex published (maybe written around 1576)
1902 – Codex Vatincanus B translated and published
until 1925 – Huexotzinco Codex owned privately, purchased in around 1928 for Library of Congress
1965 – Cantares Mexicanos translation begins
1990s – Codex Escalada comes to light
1995 – Codex Telleriano-Remensis published
The list of Aztec documents which I have not yet located dates for is as follows;
Codex Cospi, Codex Porfirio Díaz, Aubin Manuscript No. 20, Fonds mexicain 20, Codex Chimalpahin, Codex Cozcatzin, Codex Ixtilxochitl, Codex Mexicanus, Testaments of Toluca, Testaments of Culhuacan, Tlaxcalan Actas
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References:
[1] – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_codices
[2] – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_literature
[3] – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mesoamerican_codices
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