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"Handsomely realized study of this key member of the Borgia Group of pictorial manuscripts, part of a projected series intended to cover all of its five components (see item #bi 00004577#). Here, the editors provide a stunning facsimile of the original along with a detailed, revisionist analysis of the gods and rites featured in the manuscript. An important contribution"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
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Mexican Manuscripts, Aztec calendar, Aztec mythology, Facsimiles, Writing, Picture-writing, Nahuatl Manuscripts, Aztecs, Codex Borgianus, HistoryPlaces
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Códice Borgia.
1993, Sociedad Estatal Quinto Centenario, Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, Fondo de Cultura Económica
in Spanish
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Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
The contents of the reproduced codex, pictorial throughout, may be viewed, wholly or in part, as pictographic writing expressing 13th-cent. Nahuatl concepts; the interpretive commentary is in Spanish.
Issued in a case, 31 x 31 cm.
Title from case; imprint from the accompanying commentary volume.
The full-col. facsim. is, like the original, folded accordion-style to form 39 quasi-leaves; the facsim. carries on added border the modern pagination1-38 on one side and 39-76 on the other in the reverse direction, omitting blank recto of p. 76 and blank verso of p. 38.
The unbound commentary volume has t.p.: Los templos del cielo y de la oscuridad : oráculos y liturgia : libro explicativo del llamado Códice Borgia ... / introducción y explicación, Ferdinand Anders, Maarten Jansen, Luis Reyes García. At head of title: Ferdinand Anders (Viena), Maarten Jansen (Leiden), Luis Reyes García (México), Comisión Técnica Investigadora.
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