A painting of Tláloc, as shown on page 20R of Codex Rios. Codex Rios is an Italian translation and augmentation of a Spanish colonial-era manuscript, Codex Telleriano-Remensis, that is partially attributed to Pedro de los Ríos, a Dominican friar working in Oaxaca and Puebla between 1547 and 1562. The codex itself was likely written and drawn in Italy after 1566. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (654x761, 90 KB) Summary This is a detail from page 20, reverse, of Codex Rios. ...
Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (654x761, 90 KB) Summary This is a detail from page 20, reverse, of Codex Rios. ...
Conquistador Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán as depicted in Codex Telleriano Remensis The Codex Telleriano-Remensis, produced in sixteenth century Mexico and printed on European paper, is one of the finest surviving examples of Aztec manuscript painting. ...
First page of the Codex Argenteus A codex (Latin for block of wood, book; plural codices) is a handwritten book, in general, one produced from Late Antiquity through the Middle Ages. ...
The manuscript is focused on the Tolteca-Chichimeca culture in the Tehuacan Valley in modern-day Puebla and Oaxaca. It can be divided into seven sections: The Mexican state of Puebla is located in the center of the country, to the east of Mexico City. ...
Catedral de Santo Domingo The Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca or simply Oaxaca is one of the 31 states of Mexico, located in the southern part of Mexico, west of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. ...
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- Cosmogological and mythological traditions with emphasis on the four epochs.
- An almanac, or tonalamatl, for the 260-day divinatory year common in Mesoamerica.
- Calendar tables for the years 1558 through 1619, without drawings.
- An 18-month festival calendar, with drawings of the gods of each period.
- Ritual customs, with portraits of Indians.
- Pictorial chronicles for the years 1195-1549 beginning with the migration from Chicomoztoc and covering later events in the Valley of Mexico.
- Glyphs for the years 1556 through 1562, without drawings or text.
Codex Rios consists of 101 pages of European paper, accordion-folded. It is held in the Vatican Library, Rome and is also variously known as Codex Vatican A, Codex Vaticanus A, and Codex Vaticanus 3738. The original page 13 of the Codex Borbonicus, showing the 13th trecena of the Aztec sacred calendar. ...
The cultural areas of Mesoamerica The term Mesoamérica is used to refer to a geographical region that extends roughly from the Tropic of Cancer in central Mexico down through Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua to northwestern Costa Rica, and which is characterized by the particular cultural homogeneity...
The seven caves of Chicomoztoc, from Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca. ...
The Valley of Mexico is a highlands plateau in central Mexico roughly coterminous with the present-day Distrito Federal and the eastern half of Estado de Mexico. ...
The Vatican Library (Latin: Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana) is the library of the Holy See, located in Vatican City. ...
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