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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.
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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 ...
Several decades after its painting the Matrícula was used as a reference for Codex Mendoza's tribute section, several pages disappeared after this time. [ 2 ] The first historical mention of the Matrícula appears in Lorenzo Boturini's collection of Mexican documents in the 1740s. 2 pages of the Matrícula was donated to the American ...
An Aztec man holding a Pāmitl as drawn by Juan de Tovar in the Ramírez Codex Pāmitl was the Aztec name for a flag or banner containing identifying emblems of officers and prestigious warriors. These have been recorded to have been carried in the hands or more commonly worn on the back in a similar manner to the Japanese uma-jirushi .
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 ...
The Essential Codex Mendoza. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-20454-6; Diaz del Castillo, Bernal (2003) [1576]. The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-81319-X. Durán, Diego (1994) [c. 1581]. History of the Indies of New Spain. University of Oklahoma Press.
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