The Ramírez Codex, not to be confused with the Tovar Codex, is a post-conquest codex from the late 16th century entitled Relación del origen de los indios que hábitan esta Nueva España según sus Historias. The manuscript is named after the Mexican scholar José Fernando Ramírez, who discovered it in 1856 in the convent of San Francisco in Mexico City.
The Aztec are sieged in Chapultepec by the Tepaneca and the Culhua by the orders of Coxcoxtli, king of Culhuacan (Codex Ramírez, plate 3)
Plates 1 and 2. Chicomoztoc and Tollan
Plates 3 and 4. The founding of Tenochtitlan and Battle at Chapultepec
Plates 7 and 8. Chimalpopoca and Itzcoatl
Diego Durán was a Dominican friar best known for his authorship of one of the earliest Western books on the history and culture of the Aztecs, The History of the Indies of New Spain, a book that was much criticised in his lifetime for helping the "heathen" maintain their culture.
Moctezuma represented according to the codex of the 16th century chronicler Diego Durán.
Engraving of an Aztec human sacrifice, shown in the book Historia de las Indias (1574–1576) by Diego Durán.
Hernán Cortés and La Malinche, 1576, Durán Codex by Diego Durán.