Burgoa, Fray Francisco de. 1989 [1670]. Palestra historial. México: Editorial Porrua.

Byland, Bruce and John Pohl. 1994. In the Realm of Eight Deer: The Archaeology of the Mixtec Codices. Norman: University of Oklahoma.

Furst, Jill. 1978. Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus I: A Commentary. Institute for Mesoamerican Studies Publication 4. Albany: State University of New York at Albany.

Garcia, Fray Gregorio. 1981 [1607]. Origen de los Indios de el Nuevo Mundo e Indias Occidentales. México: Fondo de Cultural Económica.

Jansen, Maarten. 1982. Huisi Tacu. Amsterdam: Centrum voor Studie en Documentaire van Latijns Amerika.

Jansen, Maarten and Gabina Aurora Pérez Jiménez. 2011. The Mixtec Pictorial Manuscripts: Time, Agency, and Memory in Ancient Mexico. Leiden: Brill.

King, Mark. 1990. Poetics and Metaphor in Mixtec Writing. Ancient Mesoamerica 1: 141-151.

King, Mark. 1994. Hearing the Echoes of Verbal Art in Mixtec Writing. In Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes, ed. Elizabeth Hill Boone and Walter D. Mignolo, 102-136. Durham: Duke University Press.

León-Portilla, Miguel. 1969. Pre-Columbian Literatures of Mexico. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

León-Portilla, Miguel. 1992. Have We Really Translated the Mesoamerican “Ancient Word”? In On the Translation of Native American Literatures, ed. Brian Swann, 313-338. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution.

Markman, Roberta H. and Peter T. Markman. 1992. The Flayed God: The Mythology of Mesoamerica. New York: Harper Collins.

Monaghan, John. 1990. Performance and the Structure of the Mixtec Codices. Ancient Mesoamerica 1: 133-40.

Monaghan, John. 1994. The Text in the Body and the Body in the Text: The Embodied Sign in Mixtec Writing. In Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes, ed. Elizabeth Hill Boone and Walter D. Mignolo, 87-101. Durham: Duke University Press.

Pohl, John M. D. 1994. The Politics of Symbolism in the Mixtec Codices. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Publications in Anthropology.

Tedlock, Dennis. 1987. Hearing a Voice in an Ancient Text: Quiché Maya Poetics in Performance. In Native American Discourse: Poetics and Rhetoric, ed. Joel Sherzer and Anthony Woodbury, 140-175. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.