What are some reliable primary sources from the Spanish Conquest of Mexico?

by contro3ler

Primary sources from this event seem to be rare in quantity and there is wild debate over which ones are actually from the conquest and which ones are not.

voyeur324

I would start with this section of the subreddit booklist. /u/drylaw knows more about this topic, but please be more specific about your area of interest. I assume you are looking for written texts, but there are other types of primary sources available. If this is a homework question, I imagine your professor has already assigned you Visión de los vencidos/The Broken Spears.

/u/400-rabbits has previously answered Why was there so little written about the Aztecs between the 17th and 19th centuries? and offers suggestions to counter the OP's assertion.

/u/anthropology_nerd has also written about why the "Spanish Conquest of Mexico" is not a linear process and took a long time: