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Right side of Folio 19 [1]. 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.
Also known as the Durán Codex, The History of the Indies of New Spain was completed in about 1581. Durán also wrote Book of the Gods and Rites (1574–1576), and Ancient Calendar (c. 1579). [ 2 ] He was fluent in Nahuatl , the Aztec language, and was therefore able to consult natives and Aztec codices as well as work done by earlier friars.
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.
Tlacotzin in the Aubin Codex Juan Velázquez Tlacotzin was an Aztec leader in Tenochtitlan , during the final decades of the Aztec Empire . He then was the first post- Spanish conquest indigenous ruler of Tenochtitlan from 1525 to 1526.
Created Date: 8/30/2012 4:52:52 PM
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]
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