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In 1992, after a series of studies focused on particular elements of the Codex Mendoza or on its contextualization within a corpus of Mexican manuscripts, the next milestone work in the history of the codex’s scholarship was published: a facsimile of the codex. This work was fruit of the labor of two anthropologists, Frances Berdan and Patricia Anwalt, who rescued the project after it had been forsaken by the University of New Mexico Press in 1986. Hitherto, this edition is the most influential study of the codex, both because of its purview and depth. It is here that we find the last of the great historical, documentary summaries of the Codex Mendoza. Penned by H. B. Nicholson, it not only sought to contextualize the essays that make up the 1992 edition, but it also offered initial thoughts regarding the place the Codex Mendoza had in the bibliography of Thevet and other scholars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Furthermore, it is the first study of the codex to bring to light references that Thevet himself made regarding Mexican manuscripts, thus allowing for what theretofore had been certainties pertaining to the identity and itineraries of the Codex Mendoza to be questioned.