Relación breve de la conquista de la Nueva España

According to the introduction by the author, the account was written after Aguilar had joined the Dominican Order, at a time in which he would have been more than 80 years old, between 1559 and 1571.

This same copy was then used by fellow Mexican historian Luis González Obregón, who included it in his Anales del Museo nacional de México, t. VIII (1ª.

época ), entrega 1ª.,, under the title Historia de la Nueva España (English: History of New Spain), in June 1900.

[1] The text was modernized by Alfonso Teja Zabre, and released under the title Historia de la Nueva España, in November 1937.

In 1954 Federico Gómez de Orozco headed the publication of a new edition featuring an essay by Father Mariano Gutiérrez and a biography of the author written by Agustín Dávila Padilla.