Codex Mendoza
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The Codex Mendoza is an Aztec codex, believed to have been created around the year 1541. It contains a history of both the Aztec rulers and their conquests as well as a description of the daily life o
The founding of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan; first page of the Codex Mendoza, c. 1541
The Codex Mendoza on display at the Bodleian Library
Folio 2 recto Founding of Tenochtitlan
Folio 4 verso Conquests of Chimalpopoca
Aztec script
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The Aztec or Nahuatl script is a pre-Columbian writing system that combines ideographic writing with Nahuatl specific phonetic logograms and syllabic signs which was used in central Mexico by the Nahu
Codex Mendoza
…the Aztec rulers and their conquests as well as a description of the daily life of pre-conquest Aztec society. The codex is written using traditional Aztec pictograms with a translation and explanation of the text provided in Spanish. It is named after Don Antonio de Mendoza (1495–1552), the viceroy of New Spain, who…
Aztecwriting
Aztec syllabary (according to Lacadena and Wichmann, 2004)
Teopanzolco