Codex Mexicanus
{{Short description|Mexican pictorial manuscript}}
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
- {{cite journal |author=Robertson, Donald |year=1954 |title=A Note on the Last Pages of the Codex Mexicanus |journal=Journal de la Société des Américanistes |volume=43 |pages=219–221}}
- {{cite book |author=Robertson, Donald |year=1994 |title=Mexican Manuscript Painting of the Early Colonial Period: The Metropolitan Schools |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |pages=122–125}}
- {{cite journal |author=Mengin, Ernest |year=1952 |title=Commentaire du Codex Mexicanus Nos. 23-24 de la Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris |journal=Journal de la Société des Américanistes |volume=41 |pages=387–498 |doi=10.3406/jsa.1952.3743 |issue=2}}
External links
- [https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55005834g/f1.planchecontact High Definition scans of the codex at the French National Library]
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Category:Mesoamerican pictorial manuscripts
Category:16th century in the Aztec civilization
Category:16th century in Mexico
Category:16th century in New Spain
Category:Bibliothèque nationale de France collections
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