Codex Chimalpopoca

Created on the eve of the Spanish conquests: an Aztec divination calendar and invaluable testimony to the language, religion, and culture of Mexico before the Europeans arrived

Painted and folded sheets with a total length of almost 11 meters: a richly illuminated testimony to the seemingly strange world of ancient Mexico before the arrival of the Conquistadores

Mysterious festivals and ancient rituals adopted into the new faith: a pre-Columbian calendar as beautiful as the elaborate ceramics of the Mixtecs and a rare glimpse into the Christianization of Old Mexico

As important as the Rosetta Stone for our understanding of the culture of ancient Mexico: cosmology, mythology, and ethnography vividly documented in an Italian translation

A mysterious-looking calendar on richly painted deer skin: an Aztec masterpiece from ancient Mexico dating back to pre-colonial times, used by priests and fortune tellers to calculate the phases of the moon and holidays

The calendars, counting methods, and festivals of a past culture: a rare and wonderfully illuminated testimonial to the disappearing culture of the Aztecs, comissioned by the Spanish nobleman Veytia