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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. [1] [2] It is now in the British Museum ...
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 ...
The earliest known Colonial-period calendar wheel is actually depicted in a square format, on pages 21 and 22 of the Codex Borbonicus, an Aztec screenfold that divides the 52-year cycle into two parts. The Codex Aubin, also known as the Codex of 1576, shows the 52-year calendar in a rectangular format on a single page. Most other calendar ...
The Tira of San Andrés Tetepilco is a pictographic history to the style of and familial strain of the Codex Boturini, the Aubin Codex, and MS.40 and MS.85 of Paris. [3] Tira of San Andrés Tetepilco consists of 20 folded sheets depicting the history of Tenochtitlan , with a founding date of 1300, with the conquest of Tetepilco by Itzcoatl and ...
The Boturini Codex establishes that after abandoning Atitalaquia, Tlamaco was founded in the year 7-Rabbit (1173) [2] and they remained in the place for 5 years. Later they left for Atotonilco in the year 11-Conejo. The Aubin Codex refers to the founding of Tlamaco with the following: [3] Auh niman iconmiquanique in Tlemaco in mexica.
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.
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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]