Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin (1579,Amecameca,Chalco – 1660,Mexico City), usually referred to simply asChimalpahin orChimalpain, was aNahuaannalist fromChalco. HisNahuatl names (Nahuatl pronunciation:[tʃiːmaɬˈpaː.inkʷaːʍtɬeːwaˈnitsin]) mean "Runs Swiftly with a Shield" and "Rising Eagle", respectively, and he claimed descent from the lords of Tenango-Amecameca-Chalco. He was the grandson of the late Don Domingo Hernández Ayopochtzin, a seventh-generation descendant of the founding king of the polity. Don Domingo was learned and esteemed, especially for his education and his record-keeping skills in the ancient tradition.[1]
He wrote on thehistory of Mexico and other neighboring nations in the Nahuatl andSpanish languages.[2] The most important of his surviving works is theRelaciones orAnales. This Nahuatl work was compiled in the early seventeenth century, and is based on testimony fromindigenous people. It covers the years 1589 through 1615, but also deals with events before theconquest and supplies lists of indigenous kings and lords and Spanish viceroys, archbishops of Mexico and inquisitors. Chimalpahin recorded the 1610 and 1614 visits ofJapanese delegations to Mexico, led byTanaka Shōsuke andHasekura Tsunenaga, respectively. He recorded brawls between the Japanese and Spaniards, in one of which the Spanish ambassadorSebastián Vizcaíno was severely wounded inAcapulco in the year 1614.[3]
He also wroteDiferentes historias originales (also known asRelaciones originales), a compilation of claims and proofs of nobility asserted by indigenous leaders of Chalco-Amequemecan. It was written to serve as a judicial guide for the viceregal authorities for the granting of privileges and offices to members of the indigenous nobility. There are eight of theserelaciones. All contain ethnographic, social and chronologic information of great value to historians.
^Gibson, Charles and John B. Glass. "Prose sources in the Native Historical Tradition", article 27B. "A Census of Middle American Prose Manuscripts in the Native Historical Tradition".Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources Part 4;Handbook of Middle American Indians. University of Texas Press 1975, census #1023-1027, pp. 330-333.
Álvarez, José Rogelio, ed. (1987). "Chimalpain, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñoz".Enciclopedia de México (in Spanish). Vol. 7 (Edición especial, 2nd. ed.). México, D.F.: Compañía Editora de Enciclopedias de México, andSecretaría de Educación Pública. p. 771.ISBN968-6234-00-4.OCLC17430840.
Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo de San Antón Muñón (1997a) [c.1621].Arthur J.O. Anderson; Susan Schroeder (eds.).Codex Chimalpahin, vol. 1: society and politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Texcoco, Culhuacan, and other Nahua altepetl in central Mexico; the Nahuatl and Spanish annals and accounts collected and recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin. Civilization of the American Indian series, no. 225. Norman:University of Oklahoma Press.ISBN978-0-8061-2921-1.OCLC36017075.
Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo de San Antón Muñón (1997b) [c.1621].Arthur J.O. Anderson; Susan Schroeder (eds.).Codex Chimalpahin, vol. 2: society and politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Texcoco, Culhuacan, and other Nahua altepetl in central Mexico; the Nahuatl and Spanish annals and accounts collected and recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin (continued). Civilization of the American Indian series, no. 226. Norman:University of Oklahoma Press.ISBN978-0-8061-2950-1.OCLC36017075.
León-Portilla, Miguel (1961). "Chimalpahin y los orígenes del hombre americano".Homenaje a Pablo Martínez del Río en el vigésimo aniversario de la primera edición de Orígenes Americanos (in Spanish).OCLC224542.
Namala, Doris Mathilde (2002).Chimalpahin in His Time: An Analysis of the Writings of a Nahua Annalist of Seventeenth-Century Mexico Concerning His Own Lifetime (PhD thesis, UCLA ed.). Ann Arbor, MI.OCLC249374923.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Schroeder, Susan. "Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco De San Antón Muñón." In Davíd Carrasco (ed). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures. : Oxford University Press, 2001.ISBN9780195188431
