Codex Mexicanus Explained

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.
• Book: 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 . 10.3406/jsa.1952.3743 . 2.

External links

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