Codex Mexicanus
The Codex Mexicanus is an early colonial Mexican pictorial manuscript.
The Codex can be divided into several sections:
- The saints, the European calendar and zodiac.
- The Aztec calendar.
- Accounts in the Aztec pictographic writing system.
- A family tree of the rulers of Mexico.
- The history of the Mexica from their departure from Aztlan.
- Colonial history.
- Two Christian scenes: the Temptation of Christ and the Adoration.
- A tonalamatl. This last section is incomplete.
It is currently held in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
See also
References
- Robertson, Donald (1954). "A Note on the Last Pages of the Codex Mexicanus". Journal de la Société des Américanistes. 43: 219–221.
- Robertson, Donald (1994). Mexican Manuscript Painting of the Early Colonial Period: The Metropolitan Schools. University of Oklahoma Press. pp. 122–125.
- Mengin, Ernest (1952). "Commentaire du Codex Mexicanus Nos. 23-24 de la Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris". Journal de la Société des Américanistes. 41 (2): 387–498. doi:10.3406/jsa.1952.3743.
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