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The Codex Xolotl (also known as Códice Xolotl) is a postconquest cartographic Aztec codex, thought to have originated before 1542. [1] It is annotated in Nahuatl and details the preconquest history of the Valley of Mexico , and Texcoco in particular, from the arrival of the Chichimeca under the king Xolotl in the year 5 Flint (1224) to the ...
Its foremost representativese are the Mapa Quinatzin, Mapa Tlotzin, Codex Xolotl, Codex en Cruz, the Boban Calendar Wheel, and the Relaciones Geográficas de Texcoco. School of Tlatelolco: Based at the sister-city of Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco , this school is associated with the Badianus herbal , the Mapa de Santa Cruz , the Codex of Tlatelolco ...
In the Codex's description of the first meeting between Moctezuma and Cortés, the Aztec ruler is described as giving a prepared speech in classical oratorial Nahuatl, a speech which, as described in the codex written by the Franciscan Bernardino de Sahagún and his Tlatelolcan informants, included such prostrate declarations of divine or near ...
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]
Xolotl statue displayed at the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City. Codex Borbonicus (p. 16) Xolotl is depicted as a companion of the Setting Sun. [4] He is pictured with a knife in his mouth, a symbol of death. [5] Xolotl was the sinister god of monstrosities who wears the spirally-twisted wind jewel and the ear ornaments of ...
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Panel 1 of the Codex; the panel contains an image of the Virgin and Child and symbolic representations of tribute paid to the administrators. The Huexotzinco Codex or Huejotzingo Codex is a colonial-era Nahua pictorial manuscript, one of the group of manuscripts collectively known as Aztec codices.
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