Codex Mexicanus

Short description: Mexican pictorial manuscript

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.

See also

• Aztec codices
• Codex Vaticanus B

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. pp. 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 (2): 387–498. doi:10.3406/jsa.1952.3743. 

External links

• High Definition scans of the codex at the French National Library