Mesoamerican Codices

At head of title: Department of the Interior. U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region. J.W. Powell, in charge.

Includes both the Codex Cortesianus and the Codex Troano, which form parts of a single codex now at the Museo de América, Madrid. The context of the Madrid Codex appears to be primarily concerned with divination; the divinatory almanacs which it contains cover various subjects including hunting, beekeeping, weaving, rain-making, crops, and diseases. It exhibits much attention to world directions and world colors but lacks the astronomy, multiplication tables, prophecies, and other mathematical reckonings of the Dresden Codex, one of the other three surviving Maya screenfolds.

A quality stock volume of one of the four surviving key Mayan codexes. The Codex of Madrid consists of 112 pages and offers an almanac of information on Mayan society, culture and science. The first 30 pages contain introductory textual material.

A quality stock volume of one of the four surviving key Mayan codices. The Codex of Madrid consists of 112 pages and offers an almanac of information on Mayan society, culture and science. The first 30 pages contain introductory textual material.

Contains native drawings and facing Spanish texts illustrative of festival designs on blankets, day signs, year signs, ceremonies of the 18 months, and a long section on movable feasts and ceremonies.

The facsimile, issued separately with title Nómina de tributos de los pueblos Otlazpan y Tepexic, 1549, will be found under Codex Mariano Jiménez.

Vol. 1 contains revised versions of six papers originally presented at a symposium organized at the International Congress of Americanists held in Manchester, England.

Tomo I: Introduccíon. I. El almanaque médico / Michel R. Oudijk -- II. La genealogía de la casa real de Tenochtitlan / María Castañeda de la Paz -- III. Los anales prehispánicos / María Castañeda de la Paz -- IV. Los anales coloniales / María Castañeda de la Paz, Michel R. Oudijk -- V. Fechamiento. Las fases de la obra y sus pintores / Michel R. Oudijk -- VI. Dos pasajes del libro de san Lucas / Michel R. Oudijk, María Castañeda de la Paz.

Códices de México, whose impeccable manufacture led it to obtain this important recognition from the Mexican publishing industry, has texts by prominent historians Miguel León-Portilla and Alfredo López Austin, as well as careful images of 44 ancient documents registered in the Program UNESCO Memory of the World.

Illustrated by 44 colored drawings. Treats preconquest and very early colonial Tarascan history. Text and drawings contain a wealth of historical, ethnographic and genealogical information.