It's difficult to find conclusive information on this by just a little googling. On one hand: 'Spanish missionaries deliberately destroyed the few written cour

It's difficult to find conclusive information on this by just a little googling. On one hand: 'Spanish missionaries deliberately destroyed the few written court and legal records that existed because they were considered to be heretical. Other legal manuscripts were burned by Spanish troops for fuel' [1] On the other hand, the 4th Aztec emperor seems to have burned Aztec history books as a political move: 'According to the Florentine Codex, Itzcoatl ordered the burning of all historical codices because it was "not wise that all the people should know the paintings". Among other purposes, this allowed the Aztec state to develop a state-sanctioned history and mythos that venerated Huitzilopochtli.' [2] [1] http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/exhibits/aztec/aztec_legal.html http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/exhibits/aztec/aztec_legal.htm... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itzcoatl http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itzcoatl