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The Codex Mendoza on display at the Bodleian Library The manuscript must date from after 6 July 1529, since Hernán Cortéz is referred to on folio 15r as 'marques del Valle'. [ 5 ] It must have been produced before 1553, when it was in the possession of the French cosmographer André Thevet , who wrote his name on folios 1r, 2r, 70v, 71v.
Batalla Rosado argues that 1 of the scribes from the Matrícula is the same painter charged with creating the Codex Mendoza possibly named Francisco Gualpuyogualcal. This idea has been pushed back against by Gómez Tejada who argued that the Matrícula actually belonged to a group of documents that the Mendoza referenced rather than being the ...
Reconstruction of Moctezuma's Palace in Portrait of Tenochtitlan by Thomas Kole Moctezuma's Palace from the Codex Mendoza (1542). Casas Nuevas de Moctezuma (English: New Houses of Moctezuma) or tecpan [2] is the name of a pre-hispanic residential complex composed of five interconnected palaces with large platforms. [1]
War with Cuatzontlan. Durán Codex Tequihua spies gathering information on an enemy city during the night. Codex Mendoza. An important campaign was the conquest of Xaltepec (today known as Jaltepec) and Cuatzontlan and the suppression of the last revolt in Icpatepec, all in Oaxaca. This war started as the result of provocations given by ...
Codex Mendoza is a mixed pictorial, alphabetic Spanish manuscript. [24] Of supreme importance is the Florentine Codex , a project directed by Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún , who drew on indigenous informants' knowledge of Aztec religion, social structure, natural history, and includes a history of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec ...
Nahuatl glyph of a calmecac (codex Mendoza, recto of the folio 61).. The Calmecac ([kaɬˈmekak], from calmecatl meaning "line/grouping of houses/buildings" and by extension a scholarly campus) was a school for the sons of Aztec nobility (pīpiltin [piːˈpiɬtin]) in the Late Postclassic period of Mesoamerican history, where they would receive rigorous training in history, calendars ...
A map showing the de Soto route through the Southeast, 1539–1542. The viceroy of New Spain Antonio de Mendoza, for whom is named the Codex Mendoza, commissioned several expeditions to explore and establish settlements in the northern lands of New Spain in 1540–1542. Francisco Vázquez de Coronado reached Quivira in central Kansas.
Atonal's death and the conquest of Coixtlahuaca, in the Aztec Codex Mendoza. Atonaltzin ( Nahuatl name), also referred to as Atonal II ( Nahuatl reverential form) [ 1 ] or Dzawindanda ( Mixtec name), was a 15th-century ruler of the Mixtec kingdom of Coixtlahuaca .