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    aːˈmoʃtɬi]; sg.: codex) are Mesoamerican manuscripts made by the pre-Columbian Aztec, and their Nahuatl-speaking descendants during the colonial period in Mexico...
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    The Madrid Codex (also known as the Tro-Cortesianus Codex or the Troano Codex) is one of four surviving pre-Columbian Maya books dating to the Postclassic...
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    codex (pl.: codices /ˈkoʊdɪsiːz/) was the historical ancestor format of the modern book. Technically, the vast majority of modern books use the codex...
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    the world, the concept has been developed as a description of European colonial empires of the modern era. These spread globally from the 15th century...
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  • Thumbnail for Codex Magliabechiano
    The Codex Magliabechiano is a pictorial Aztec codex created during the mid-16th century, in the early Spanish colonial period. It is representative of...
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    constructions, deities, and ritual actions. The Codex Borbonicus is one of a very few Aztec codices that survived the colonial Spanish inquisition. When the Spanish...
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    Maya codices (sg.: codex) are folding books written by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in Maya hieroglyphic script on Mesoamerican bark paper. The...
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    Codex Ixtlilxochitl (Nahuatl for "black-faced flower") is a pictorial Aztec Codex created between 1580 and 1584, during the Spanish colonial era in Mexico...
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  • The Boxer Codex is a late-16th-century Spanish manuscript produced in the Philippines. It contains 75 colored illustrations of the peoples of China, the...
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    The Florentine Codex is a 16th-century ethnographic research study in Mesoamerica by the Spanish Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún. Sahagún originally...
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    The Paris Codex (also known as the Codex Peresianus and Codex Pérez) is one of three surviving generally accepted pre-Columbian Maya books dating to the...
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    The Codex Tudela is a 16th-century pictorial Aztec codex. It is based on the same prototype as the Codex Magliabechiano, the Codex Ixtlilxochitl, and other...
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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...
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    The Codex Laud, or Laudianus, (catalogued as MS. Laud Misc. 678, Bodleian Library in Oxford) is a sixteenth-century Mesoamerican codex named for William...
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    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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    The Codex Borgia (The Vatican, Bibl. Vat., Borg.mess.1), also known as Codex Borgianus, Manuscrit de Veletri and Codex Yohualli Ehecatl, is a pre-Columbian...
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    fruitful. Most Colonial-era manuscripts equate him with Ōmetēcuhtli. His consort was Tonacacihuatl. Tonacateuchtli is depicted in the Codex Borgia. The god's...
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    Codex Ríos, originally titled Indorum cultus, idolatria, et mores and also known as Codex Vaticanus A, is a 16th-century Italian translation and augmentation...
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  • The Codex Mexicanus is an early colonial Mexican pictorial manuscript. The Codex can be divided into several sections: The saints, the European calendar...
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    According to the Codex Ríos, the History of the Mexicans as Told by Their Paintings, the Histoyre du Mechique, and the Florentine Codex, Tōnacācihuātl and...
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  • Mixtec Group (redirect from Mixtec codex)
    Mixtec Group are: The Codex Zouche-Nuttall. The Codex Selden. The Codex Colombino-Becker. The Codex Waecker-Gotter. The Codex Vindobonensis (or Vienna...
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    the 14th century to the 16th century, including events of early Colonial Mexico. The codex contains twelve references to a series of earthquakes that occurred...
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  • Codex Tlatelolco is a colonial-era Aztec codex written on amatl, around 1565. It depicts royal ceremonies involving Spanish monarchs Charles V and his...
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    The Classic Codex of 1552 (Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, 1939/2000). Robertson, Mexican Manuscript Painting of the Early Colonial Period., 159...
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    sometimes commissioned by the colonial government, for example, Codex Mendoza, were painted by Aztec tlacuilos (codex creators), but under the control...
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    layer of the codex shows the influences of Renaissance European art. Donald Robertson (1994). Mexican manuscript painting of the early colonial period : the...
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    Ixtlilxochitl, Codex Tudela, Codex Magliabechiano, Codex Mendoza, the Matrícula de Tributos, Codex Badianus, Relación de Michoacan. Native colonial codices:...
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    from Early Colonial Mexico". The Bodleian Library holds four other Mesoamerican codices: Codex Bodley, Codex Laud, Codex Mendoza, and Codex Selden. Other...
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    Empire, and into the early Spanish colonial period, ending in 1608. It is now in the British Museum in London. The Codex covers the history of Mexico between...
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    manner'. His name glyph, shown in the upper left corner of the image from the Codex Mendoza below, was composed of a diadem (xiuhuitzolli) on straight hair...
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