Painted by Native artists in the late sixteenth century, it includes information on the Christian and Aztec calendars, European medical astrology, and a history of pre-conquest and early colonial Mexico City.
Creators: Anonymous Nahua Scribes
Date of Creation: ca. 1578, updated over time
Place of origin: Mexico City
Physical measurements: 51 leaves, 102 pages, 10 cm x 20 cm
Materials: Paint on Native bark paper
Process by which it was made: Painting
Current location: Bibliothèque National de France.
Further Reading
Boone, Elizabeth Hill. Stories in Red and Black: Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs and Mexica. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000.
Boone, Elizabeth Hill. Cycles of Time and Meaning in the Mexican Books of Fate. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007.
Delbrugge, Laura. Reportorio de los tiempos. London: Tamesis, 1999.
Diel, Lori Boornazian. The Codex Mexicanus: A Guide to Life in Late Sixteenth-Century New Spain. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2018.
Information contributed by Lori Boornazian Diel.