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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 .
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 ...
During the 19th century, the word 'codex' became popular to designate any pictorial manuscript in the Mesoamerican tradition. In reality, pre-Columbian manuscripts are, strictly speaking, not codices, since the strict librarian usage of the word denotes manuscript books made of vellum, papyrus and other materials besides paper, that have been sewn on one side. [1]
This codex is a “compilation of information” drawn from across space and time as various portions are the “result of the conversion in a Maya format of central Mexican almanacs such as those found in” codices from the Borgia group. [31] This suggests that scribes had direct access to the Borgia Codex or other related manuscripts. [32]
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Codex Marshall Or. 99; Codex Mendoza; Codex Selden; Conservative Party Archive; D. De falsis diis; De laude ...
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 ...
1897 portrait of Eduard Seler and his wife Caecilie Seler-Sachs A page of the Codex Mendoza : the conquests and rules of Itzcoatl tlatoani of Tenochtitlan (1427–1440) Bottom left page of the Borgia Codex (16th century): the deity Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli spearing a woman
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.)