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  2. Codex Boturini - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Aztec codex - Wikipedia

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    According to Robertson, no pre-Conquest examples of Aztec codices survived, for he considered the Codex Borbonicus and the Codex Boturini as displaying limited elements of European influence, such as the space apparently left to add Spanish glosses for calendric names in the Codex Borbonicus and some stylistic elements of trees in Codex ...

  4. Mesoamerican Codices - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. List of codices - Wikipedia

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    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.)

  6. Lorenzo Boturini Benaduci - Wikipedia

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    The Aztecs (Mexica) depart from Aztlan, in a scene from the Boturini Codex. The collection was formed between 1736 and 1744, to serve as the basis of a projected Historia de América Septentrional. It consisted of many valuable documents, the majority of them of Indian provenance.

  7. Aztlán - Wikipedia

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    Aztlán is also depicted as some island in the Aubin and Azcatitlan codices. [7] Friar Diego Durán (c. 1537 –1588), who chronicled the history of the Aztecs, wrote of Aztec emperor Moctezuma I's attempt to recover the history of the Mexica by congregating warriors and wise men on an expedition to locate Aztlán. According to Durán, the ...

  8. Category:Aztec codices - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Aztec codices" ... Codex Borbonicus; Codex Boturini; C. Codex Chimalpopoca; Codex Osuna; Codex Tlatelolco; Codex Totomixtlahuaca; Codices of San ...

  9. Aztecs - Wikipedia

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    The Codex Borbonicus is considered by some to be the only extant Aztec codex produced before the conquest – it is a calendric codex describing the day and month counts indicating the patron deities of the different periods. [27] Others consider it to have stylistic traits suggesting a post-conquest production. [130]