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Title page Contents Preface Note on Orthography Introduction On the Translation of Aztec Poetry Guide to the Vocabulary Guide to the Transcription Folio I Folio 2 Folio 3 Folio 4 Folio 5 Folio 6 Folio 7 Folio 8 Folio 9 Folio 10 Folio 11 Folio 12 Folio 13 Folio 14 Folio 15 Folio 16 Folio 17 Folio 18 Folio 19 Folio 20 Folio 21 Folio 22 Folio 23 Folio 24 Folio 25 Folio 26 Folio 27 Folio 28 Folio 29 Folio 30 Folio 31 Folio 32 [Folio 33] Folio 34 Folio 35 Folio 36 Folio 37 Folio 38 Folio 39 Folio 40 Folio 41 Folio 42 Commentary Concordance to Proper Nouns Verbs, Particles, and Common Nouns Appendix I Appendix II Bibliography

[folio 2] 2 +	F2
[1]linã ye motech onquiçã an yhui[2]ti xochitli ye o ayya yye mã xonahui[3]yacan ã ohuaya ohuaya
4 7 ¶ [superscript:] ye onihualla [line script:] antocnihuãn i no[superscript:]cȏ[line script:]quicozcaçoya, nic[5]tzinitzcamanaya, nictlauh[superscript:]teoo[line script:]quecholhui[6]molohuã, nicteomcuitlaycuiya, [7] nicquetzalhuixtoylpiz, yn icniuhyotli, [8] niccuicaylacãtzoz cohuȃyotli yn tec[9]pa■ nicquixtiz, an ya tomizin, quini[10]cuac tomitzin,n otiyaq  ̑ , [superscript:] ye mictlan [line script:] y yuhcã tzan [11] tictlanehuico yn ohuaya ohuaya	4 "Friends, I've come to string them as jewels,13 spread them out as trogons, make them stir as spirit swans, twirl them as gold, these comrades. As plume-captives I'll snare them.14 I'll song-whirl these companions, in this palace I'll bring them forth. Ah, all of us, then in a moment all of us will have departed for the dead land.15 For we only come to borrow them.
12 8 ¶ ye omyanihuala ye omninoqueça [13] ã cuiçã nopictihuiz cuiçã noyocoxti[14]huiz antocnihuã nechhualihua [15] dios [superscript:] teotl [line script:] nehua nixochhuãtzin nehua [16] nitemilotzin noohuȃ ye noteycni[17]uhtlaco nican an ohuaya ohuaya ya esta trasuntado                 tamȏhua                 ni a ca te   4 titloq  ̑ tinahua ay dios                 huatl       [superscript:] totecoyo 2 y ma o■■■■        [line script:] ayac ypalne      ȃ quimati                                3 ahuilotl i machtic mati                                 yca çã totlaocol yye■	12 "I come, I appear! Friends, I come created as a song, come fashioned as a song.16 God sends me here. I have flowers, I am Temilotzin. I've come to assemble a company of friends."17
[folio 2v] 2	F2v
1 9 2 ·¶· nihualaciz ye nicȃ ye niyoyotzin [2] yhuiya çã nixochiyeelehuiya ehua[3]ya nixochitlatlapanaco tlalticq  ̑ noco[4]yatlapana yn cacahuaxochitli nocȏ[5]yatlapana ycniuhxochitli ye tehuã [6] monacãyo titecpiltzinn i necãhual[7]coyotl tecuitli yoyotzin i yyahu ohui [8] y yya hayyo ya oha ha ay yohuiya	[II] 18
9 10 ¶ tzan nicyatemohuitihuiz nocuiqu i [10] yectli yhuã nicyatemohuiya, [11] titocnihuan anaya cohuatihua [12] yehuan ycniuhtlamachoya y [13] yahua hui y yya hayyo ya oha [14] y yuayyo ohuiya	1 "I'm coming,19 I, Yoyontzin, craving flowers, hatching flowers here on earth, hatching cacao flowers, hatching comrade flowers."20 And they're your flesh, O prince, O Lord Nezahualcoyotl, O Yoyontzin.
15 11 ¶ Achin ic nonahuiya oo achin ic opã[16]pactinemi noyolo yn tlalticpac[17]quin ye niyoyotzinn i■ nixochiyee[18]lehuiya oo nixochicuicuiycãtine[19]miya ohuaya ohuaya [1]	9 "I come bringing my good songs, bringing them down. We're friends. May all be comrades, may all know friends.21