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In the last article we looked at the Aztec document, the Codex en Cruz. These  pre-Hispanic chronicles or annals contained dated events recorded in chronological order. The priest or scribe familiar with the symbols in the pictorial manuscript  would then use it as a kind of prompt book or mnemonic guide that could be turned into a continuous historical  narrative. This way  of recording history passed continued into the post-Hispanic period. For example, the Anales de Cuauhtitlan (in Nahuatl) follows the annalistic  format but also contains long narrative passages interspersed with  mere lists of dates in chronological order.