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The Aubin Codex is an 81-leaf Aztec codex written in alphabetic Nahuatl on paper from Europe. Its textual and pictorial contents represent the history of the Aztec peoples who fled Aztlán , lived during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire , and into the early Spanish colonial period, ending in 1608.
Image of the Aubin Tonalamatl. The Aubin Tonalamatl is a Nahuatl screenfold manuscript painted on native paper. It was made sometime in the early 16th century, but after 1520. [1] The word "tonalamatl" is made up of two Nahuatl words, "tonalli" meaning day, and "amatl" referring to the paper substrate that this codex is written on. [2]
The opening pages of the first, an annals history, bear the date of 1576, leading to its informal title, Manuscrito de 1576 ("The Manuscript of 1576"), although its year entries run to 1608. Among other topics, Codex Aubin has a native description of the massacre at the temple in Tenochtitlan in 1520. The second part of this codex is a list of ...
English: The left side of this image shows the Codex Borbonicus, an Aztec codex that contains significant information about the calendar or time keeping systems of the Aztecs. The right side shows the Aubin Tonalamatl, another codex that reveals much about the calendar system of the Nahuatl people.
For the purposes of this compilation, as in philology, a "codex" is a manuscript book published from the late Antiquity period through the Middle Ages. (The majority of the books in both the list of manuscripts and list of illuminated manuscripts are codices.)
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The Annals of Cuauhtitlan gives his year of death as 1 Reed, one 52-year calendar cycle from his birth. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In the second section of the Codex Chimalpopoca (called Legend of the Suns) , Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli becomes angry when Tonatiuh, the sun god, does not move across the sky after being created.