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It is evident that the Codex Mendoza lacks some of the cardinal elements López references. We know from Bruce Barker-Benfield’s study of the paper and binding of the manuscript (included in this volume) that there is no internal evidence that the manuscript was bound before the 1600s. Likewise, the contents of the manuscript López describes—including the battles between Spaniards and the Mexica, the delineation (urban planning) of towns and provinces, or the apportioning of these and its contributions amongst the Tenocha nobility—do not reflect that of the Codex Mendoza. Finally, while we know through several sources that the viceroy wished to compile information on New Spain, such as the letters that Mendoza sent to his brother, don Diego, and which were published by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo in his Historia natural y general de las Indias, he had not merely commissioned texts to send to Spain, but hoped to author something which surpassed the reach and scope of the Codex Mendoza. Fernández de Oviedo ([1532] 1959) twice quotes the viceroy’s writings on the history of Mexico,