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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.
Most of the songs come from Tetzcoco, with several attributed specifically to the ruler Nezahualcoyotl. Several of songs are also found with variations in the Cantares Mexicanos . The Nahuatl text and a Spanish translation of the Romances , as well as the Geographical Relation , was published in 1964 by Ángel María Garibay K. as volume 1 of ...
The codex consists of a single 549 cm (216 in) long and 19.8 cm (7.8 in) high sheet of amate, folded like an accordion into 21.5 sheets 25.4 cm (10.0 in) wide on average. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The tlacuilo [ es ] who fashioned the Boturini Codex was familiar with the Aztec writing system .
The Selden Roll on display at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. The Selden Roll is a 16th-century Mexican manuscript painted roll from the Coixtlahuaca region, incorporating both Mixtec and Aztec elements, probably recording myths of the origin and migration of divine ancestors.
[1] The lords of the night are known in both the Aztec and Maya calendar, although the specific names of the Maya Night Lords are unknown. [2] The glyphs corresponding to the night gods are known and Mayanists identify them with labels G1 to G9, the G series. Generally, these glyphs are frequently used with a fixed glyph coined F.
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.
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Chalchiuhtlicue in Codex Borgia, page 65.Chalchiuhtlicue pictured at right. Chalchiutlicue is depicted in several central Mexican manuscripts, including the Pre-Columbian Codex Borgia (plates 11 and 65), the 16th century Codex Borbonicus (page 5), the 16th century Codex Ríos (page 17), and the Florentine Codex (plate 11).