Codex Mendoza - Kurt Ross (commentaries)
Aztec Manuscript
KORTE INHOUD
The Aztec painted manuscript known as the 'Codex Mendoza' was prepared on the authority of Don Antonio de Mendoza, first Viceroy of New Spain, shortly after the Spanish conquest, for dispatch to the emperor, Charles V. The Codex was specially written by an Aztec painted book artist (tlacuilo), using the native pictographic system of writing. So that the Spanisch monarch should be able to read it and from an idea of his strange dominions in the New World, a Spanish priest familiar with the language of the Aztecs, Nauatl, was asked to write a detailed explanation of the contents.
The Codex consists of 71 folio pages, arranged in three parts. The first is a copy of an ancient Mexican chronicle, which has not survived, of the 'history from year to year' of the lords of Tenochtitlan, together with a list of the towns they subdued. It covers the period from 1325 to 1521: in other words, from the foundation, on a most unpromising, water-logged site, of what was later to become the capital of the great Aztec empire , ...
The Codex consists of 71 folio pages, arranged in three parts. The first is a copy of an ancient Mexican chronicle, which has not survived, of the 'history from year to year' of the lords of Tenochtitlan, together with a list of the towns they subdued. It covers the period from 1325 to 1521: in other words, from the foundation, on a most unpromising, water-logged site, of what was later to become the capital of the great Aztec empire , ...
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