Codex Waecker-Gotter
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The Codex Waecker-Gotter, also known as the Code Sanchez-Solís or Codex Egerton, is a Pre-Conquest-style manuscript from Mexico that has been in the British Museum's collection since 1911.
Page from the codex as displayed in the British Museum
La Mixteca
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La Mixteca is a cultural, economic and political region in Western Oaxaca and neighboring portions of Puebla and Guerrero in south-central Mexico, which refers to the home of the Mixtec people. In the
Codex Waecker-Gotter
…Alligator Sun', who may have been the founding member of the dynasty. The manuscript was probably made over a period of time by different hands in the Mixteca Baja region. In 1869, it came into the possession of Felipe Sanchez Solis who sold it to Freiherr von Waecker-Gotter, a member of the German diplomatic corps…
The Sierra Mixteca, near Nativitas Monte Verde, in Oaxaca