Codex Mexicanus

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The Codex Mexicanus is an early colonial Mexican pictorial manuscript.

The Codex can be divided into several sections:

1. The saints, the European calendar and zodiac.
2. The Aztec calendar.
3. Accounts in the Aztec pictographic writing system.
4. A family tree of the rulers of Mexico.
5. The history of the Mexica from their departure from Aztlan.
6. Colonial history.
7. Two Christian scenes: the Temptation of Christ and the Adoration.
8. A tonalamatl. This last section is incomplete.

It is currently held in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.

[edit] References

• Robertson, Donald (1954). "A Note on the Last Pages of the Codex Mexicanus". Journal de la Société des Américanistes 43: 219–221. 
• Robertson, Donald (1994). Mexican Manuscript Painting of the Early Colonial Period: The Metropolitan Schools. University of Oklahoma Press, 122–125. 
• Mengin, Ernest (1952). "Commentaire du Codex Mexicanus Nos. 23-24 de la Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris". Journal de la Société des Américanistes 41: 387–498. 

[edit] See also

• Aztec codices