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Codex Azcatitlan, a pictorial history of the Aztec empire, including images of the conquest; Codex Aubin is a pictorial history or annal of the Aztecs from their departure from Aztlán, through the Spanish conquest, to the early Spanish colonial period, ending in 1608. Consisting of 81 leaves, it is two independent manuscripts, now bound together.
Codex Boturini, also known as the Tira de la Peregrinación de los Mexica (Tale of the Mexica Migration), is an Aztec codex, which depicts the migration of the Azteca, later Mexica, people from Aztlán.
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]
The Codex Azcatitlan is an Aztec codex detailing the history of the Mexica and their migration journey from Aztlán to the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. The exact date when the codex was produced is unknown, but scholars speculate it was crafted some time between the mid-16th and 17th centuries. [ 1 ]
This is a list of notable codices. For the purposes of this compilation, as in philology , a " codex " is a manuscript book published from the late Antiquity period through the Middle Ages . (The majority of the books in both the list of manuscripts and list of illuminated manuscripts are codices.)
The Codex Gigas, 13th century, Bohemia. The codex (pl.: codices / ˈ k oʊ d ɪ s iː z /) [1] was the historical ancestor format of the modern book.Technically, the vast majority of modern books use the codex format of a stack of pages bound at one edge, along the side of the text.
The Codex Mendoza is an Aztec codex, believed to have been created around the year 1541. [1] It contains a history of both the Aztec rulers and their conquests as well as a description of the daily life of pre-conquest Aztec society .
The Codex Mexicanus is an early colonial Mexican pictorial manuscript. The Codex can be divided into several sections: The saints, the European calendar and zodiac. The Aztec calendar. Accounts in the Aztec pictographic writing system. A family tree of the rulers of Mexico. The history of the Mexica from their departure from Aztlan. Colonial ...