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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.
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]
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 ...
Exhibition of the codex, with the backsides visible through mirrors, Saxon State Library, Dresden. The Dresden Codex contains 78 pages with decorative board covers on the front and back. [7] Most pages have writing on both sides. [7] They have a border of red paint, [8] although many have lost this framing due to age deterioration.
Scholars of the 19th century—in particular Alexander von Humboldt and William H. Prescott—translated the word Azteca, as is shown in the Aubin Codex, to Aztec. [2] [3] The southward migration is estimated to have begun on May 24, 1064 CE, [4] based on the dates of the supernova Crab Nebula from May to July 1054.
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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.
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