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The two parts are described together as one volume in an early list of John Selden’s manuscripts (Library Records b. 475), in a section headed “Libri MS Latini et Graeci in folio etc” (folios 20v-21r):

“Historia Mexicana cum figuris q(ua)si hieroglyphicis.

w(i)th Sr Th: Smith Tables of values of Roman & gr: coynes.”

(folio 20v, Col. I, third item in unnumbered list).

Parts of this catalogue, including folios 1r-7v and the list on folios 20v-21r, are in the handwriting of Thomas Lockey, who, as Bodley’s Librarian in 1660-5, was responsible for listing and arranging Selden’s books.7

A second catalogue of a similarly early date (Library Records b. 474) is also associated with Lockey’s librarianship, although it went through different hands. It lists the materials more definitely as shelved in Duke Humfrey’s Library, under the more explicit title The Catalogue of Mr: Seldens bookes at the West end of Sr: Th: Bodleys Library (folio i verso). The two parts of the manuscript are described together in similar terms under the heading “MS Graeci et lati. in folio” (folio 7v, not in Lockey’s hand): “Hist(ori)a Mexicana cum figuris ipsorum, with Sr Tho: Smith’s Tables of Roman & greek Coyns.” This catalogue is fragmented, but survives complete in another contemporary transcript (MS. Add. C. 40), where the Codex Mendoza is entered under the same heading and with the same wording on p. 35. The general title of MS. Add. C. 40 (p. xii) reads, “A Catalogue of the books given by Mr Seldens Executors to the Library of the University of Oxford”.