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2. Amate - Wikipedia

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   As most amate paper is sold as the backing for these paintings, many consumers assume the Nahua produce the paper as well. [54] The amate paper paintings are a combination of Nahua and Otomi traditions. The Otomi produce the paper, and the Nahua have transferred and adapted painting traditions associated with ceramics to the paper.

3. Codex Boturini - Wikipedia

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   The codex consists of a single 549 cm (216 in) long and 19.8 cm (7.8 in) high sheet of amate, folded like an accordion into 21.5 sheets 25.4 cm (10.0 in) wide on average. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The tlacuilo [ es ] who fashioned the Boturini Codex was familiar with the Aztec writing system .

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. Maya Codex of Mexico - Wikipedia

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   The Codex was first displayed at the Grolier Club in New York, hence its name. The first Mexican owner, Josué Saenz, claimed that the manuscript had been recovered from a cave in the Mexican state of Chiapas in the 1960s, along with a mosaic mask, a wooden box, a knife handle, as well as a child's sandal and a piece of rope, along with some blank pages of amate (pre-Columbian fig-bark paper).

6. List of codices - Wikipedia

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   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.)

7. Mesoamerican literature - Wikipedia

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   A number of Precolumbian codices written on amate paper with gesso coating remain today. Historical narratives. Mixtec codices; Codex Bodley; Codex Colombino-Becker; Codex Nuttall (account of the life and times of the ruler Eight Deer Jaguar Claw and the Tilantongo, Tozacoalco and Zaachila dynasties) Codex Selden; Codex Vindobonensis; Aztec codices