Landa's Relacion de las Cosas de Yucatan. A Translation. Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. Volume XVIII

Landa probably wrote his original Relacion while in Spain somewhere about 1566. He presumably took the manuscript with him on his return to Yucatan in 1573, and, after his death six years later, his work was kept in the Franciscan convent in Merida. This manuscript is mentioned in the Relacion of Chunchuchu (RY, 1: 153), dated 1581...The source material of Landa includes practically every phase of the social anthropology of the ancient Mayas, together with the history of the Spanish discovery, the conquest and the ecclesiastical and native history together with the first accurate knowledge of the hieroglyphic writing. It is especially complete on Maya religion and rituals and, with the exception of Sahagun, there is no other manuscript of New Spain which covers adequately a similar range of subjects. The present copy of Landa is only a part of the original manuscript which is lost (from the Introduction). The present edition contains a translation of the text with copious annotations, Appendices, Syllabus of the subjects covered, Bibliography, Concordance with other editions, and Index. 8x11", xiii+393 pp., b&w illus.