Aztec codex
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Aztec codices are Mesoamerican manuscripts made by the pre-Columbian Aztec, and their Nahuatl-speaking descendants during the colonial period in Mexico. Most of their content is pictorial in nature an
Part of the first pages of Codex Mendoza, depicting the founding of Tenochtitlan.
Diego Durán: A comet seen by Moctezuma, interpreted as a sign of impending peril. (Codex Duran, page 1)
Detail of first stones from the Codex Boturini depicting the departure from Aztlán.
Codex Magliabechiano: ritual cannibalism. (Folio 73r)
Codex Ixtlilxochitl
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Codex Ixtlilxochitl is a pictorial Aztec Codex created between 1580 and 1584, during the Spanish colonial era in Mexico. It depicts past ceremonies and holidays observed at the Great Teocalli of the A
Nezahualpilli, king of Texcoco, portrayed in the fourth illustration of the second section
Cochineal dye depicted in the Codex Mendoza folio 43r
Viceroy Luis De Velasco
Facsimile from the Codex Magliabechiano