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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.
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.
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]
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]
Created Date: 8/30/2012 4:52:52 PM
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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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