Latin American History: Codices

Subject Headings: "Manuscripts, Nahuatl Facsimiles." "Manuscripts, Mexican Facsimiles."

Information from: Elizabeth Hill Boone, Stories in Red and Black: Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs (Austin: UT Press, 2000).

 

Mixtec

I.                   Genealogical [Boone, 88-89]

 

a.       Vienna Codex (Vindobonensis) F1219.V63 1963 (Woodson)

-      obverse: cosmogony of Mexteca, reads right to left from p. 52 to p. 1       

-      reverse: genealogy of Tilantongo from founding in 14th cy reads right to left from p. 1 to p. 13

 

b.      Bodley  2558 F1219 .O88 and F1219 .O88 text (LSC)

-     Obverse: dynastic history of Tilantongo with biography of 8 Deer ends with time of Spanish invasion; reads generally left to right in horizontal boustrophedon from p. 1 to p. 20

-     Reverse: dynastic history of Tilantongo and includes dynastic histories of Achiutla and Tlaxiaco; ends with Tlaxiaco rulers in 15th cy; reads generally left to right in horizontal boustrophedon from p. 40 to p. 21

 

c.       Zouche-Nuttall  F1219.56 .C6253 A53 1992 (Woodson)

-     Obverse: dynastic histories of Tilantongo Teozacoalco and possibly Zsaachila; reads right to left in a vertical boustrophedon from p. 1 to p. 41

-     Reverse: partial biography of 8 Deer from father’s marriage to death of rivals Lords 10 Dog and 6 House; reads right to left in vertical boustrophedon from p. 42 to p. 84

 

d.      Becker F1219 .C639 (Woodson) AND Colombino F1219 .C6547 1966 & F1219 .C6547 1966 Text (LSC)

-    Colombino-Becker Fragmentary ms. composed of 24 Colombino leaves and 16 Becker I leaves with partial biographies of 8 Deer and 4 Wind from coastal Tututepec point of view

 

e.       Selden F1219 .O895 1964-1964a

-      Dynastic history of Jaltepec from founding to rulers in 1556; reads bottom to top from p. 1 to p. 20

 

f.       Becker II  F1219 .C639 (Woodson)

-   Genealogy of a town in the Mixteca Baja (Santos Reyes Yucuna?) beginning with its founding

 

g.      Egerton F1219 .B86

-      Genealogy of an unknown place beginning with its founding; reads left to right from p. 2 to p. 17 (obverse) and p. 19 to p. 31 (reverse)

 

h.      Muro -- not at Rice

-      Genealogy of Adeques, town in Mixteca Alta; reads right to left from p. 1 to p. 11

 

II.                Mixtec Histories

a.       Codex Selden F1219 .B9393 (Woodson)

 

III.             Aztec Annals  [Annals record events that affect an Altepetl (community); here the Mexica from their migration to the founding of Tenochtitlan. Some are imperial others not, see Boone, 214 & passim.]

a.       Codex Aubin -- not at Rice

-     Migration Sequence: Aztlan to founding; Imperial; last recorded year is 1608

 

b.      Codex Boturini  F1219 .C652 1944 (Woodson)

-      Migration Sequence: Aztlan to Culhuacan

 

c.       Mendoza F1219.56 .C625 C64 1992 vol. 1-4 (LSC)

-      Migration Sequence: Founding of Tenochtitlan; continues to death of Moctezuma (1521)

 

d.      Codex Mexicanus F1219 .O92 (Woodson)

-      Migration sequence: Aztlan to founding; Imperial; last recorded year is 7 Rabbit (1590)

 

e.       Codex Rios [Vaticanus A] F1219.56 .R56 A3 1979 (Woodson)

-      Migration Sequence: From Chicomoztoc to founding; Imperial; last recorded year is 5 Rabbit (1562)

 

f.       Anales de Tula F1219.54 .A98 A52 1979 (Woodson)

 

g.      Lienzos Are painted on cloth; usually tell a story of a polity with its mythic past and foundation; rulers; and territory [Boone, 125]

 

h.      Lienzo Totomixtlahuaca F1219.54 .A98 L53 1974 (Woodson)

 

IV.             Other

a.       Diferentes historias originales de los reynos de Culhuacan, y México, y de otras provincias. Manuscrit mexicain no. 74 F1229 .C5 v.1, v.2, v. 3 (LSC)

 

V.                Post Conquest Accounts by Missionaries

a.       Sahagun, Primeiros memoriales F1219.3 .R38 S24 1993 (Woodson)

 

 Compiled by Prof. Alida Metcalf