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Codex Reese - a map of land claims in Tenotichlan discovered by the famed manuscript dealer William Reese. [36] Codex Santa Maria Asunción - Aztec census, similar to Codex Vergara; published in facsimile in 1997. [37] Codex Telleriano-Remensis - calendar, divinatory almanac and history of the Aztec people, published in facsimile. [38]
As a result, it is unknown whether Aztec codices were created by a native method or created with the help of imported methods after the arrival of the Spanish. [2] The Codex Borbonicus is a single 46.5-foot (14.2 m) long sheet of amatl paper. Although there were originally 40 accordion-folded pages, the first two and the last two pages are missing.
Perhaps the best-known examples among such documents are Aztec codices, Maya codices, and Mixtec codices, but other cultures such as the Tlaxcaltec, the Purépecha, the Otomi, the Zapotecs, and the Cuicatecs, are creators of equally relevant manuscripts. The destruction of Mesoamerican civilizations resulted in only about twenty known pre ...
Codex Boturini, also known as the Tira de la Peregrinación de los Mexica (Tale of the Mexica Migration), is an Aztec codex, which depicts the migration of the Azteca, later Mexica, people from Aztlán.
The Codex Mendoza is an Aztec codex, believed to have been created around the year 1541. [1] It contains a history of both the Aztec rulers and their conquests as well as a description of the daily life of pre-conquest Aztec society .
This is a list of notable codices. 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.)
Codices of San Andrés Tetepilco are Aztec codices made during the 1500s by Tlacuilos [] or Aztec scribes.It details the Founding of Tetepilco (now the borough of Iztapalapa), the inventory of an unnamed Church at Tetepilco and the transition and Conquest of the Aztec led by Hernán Cortés.
While other well-known post-colonial Aztec codices mostly document native life in Tenochtitlan, the largest city in the Aztec empire and the one that would eventually develop into the modern-day capitol of Mexico City, much of the content of the Codex Ixtlilxochitl is associated with life in Texcoco and offers a more diverse perspective on day ...