Notes on the Bibliography of Yucatan and Central America Comprising Yucatan, Chiapas, Guatemala (the Ruins of Palenque, Ocosingo, and Copan), and Oaxaca (Ruins of Mitla)

This compact guide surveys more than three centuries of writing about the ancient lands of the Yucatán Peninsula, Chiapas, Guatemala and Oaxaca. Beginning with the earliest 16th‑century chronicles, it lists the names of explorers, missionaries and early scholars, and points listeners to the various editions, translations and reprints of their accounts. The entry for each author notes where the original report first appeared, how it was later rendered into Italian, Spanish, French, German or English, and which modern collections preserve the text. By tracing the scholarly trail, the work reveals how knowledge of sites such as Palenque, Copán and Mitla spread through Europe.

Listeners will find the bibliography organized by region and by century, making it easy to follow the evolution of scholarship from the conquistadors’ reports to 19th‑century antiquarian studies. Brief annotations introduce each source’s significance, while citations guide the curious to accessible printed editions or digitized archives. It serves both as a roadmap for further research and as a window onto the early Western imagination of Central America.