Codex Zouche-Nuttall

Mexico

One of the oldest and most beautiful Pre-Columbian manuscripts originates from the Mayan domain
Approximately 11-meter-long leporello, painted on both sides with pictograms and ideograms
Together with Mexicanus I and the Codex Borgia, it forms the famous Borgia group

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Codex Zouche-Nuttall

Add. Mss. 39617 British Museum (London, United Kingdom)

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Pre-Columbian manuscripts are among the rarest hand-written documents to exist today, and some of the most coveted for their historic as well as artistic value. They offer a glimpse into a world now forever lost, whose civilizations were devastated by disease and who culture was lost in the frenzy of conquest and Christianization. The Codex Zouche-Nutall from the British Museum in London represents a vast and all-encompassing source of history, art and religion from the cultural world of ancient America.

Codex Zouche-Nutall

The Codex Zouche-Nutall from the British Museum in London forms, together with the Codex Vindobonensis (Cod. Vindobon. Mexico. 1, Oesterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Wien) and the Codex Borgia (Cod.Vat.mes.1), a trio of one of the most beautiful old Mexican manuscripts which belongs to the Mayan domain. The Codex Dresdensis (Saechsische Landesbibliothek Dresden, Mscr. Dresd. R 310) is still is not included in this grouping. The opportunity to produce the main Codex for the first time in the form of a true-to-original color reproduction using a photo-mechanical process represents a milestone in the pursuit of a project dating back to 1960 and which represents a door into a vast and all-encompassing source of history, art, and religion from the cultural world of Pre-Columbian America.

Codicology

Type: Manuscript on parchment
Size / Format: 192 pages / 24.5 x 19.1 cm (total length: 11.2 metres)
Origin: Mexico
Epochs: Pre-Colonial
Style: Pre-Columbian
Genre: Chronicles / History / Law
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1 available facsimile edition(s) of „Codex Zouche-Nuttall“

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Der Codex Zouche-Nuttall

1 volume: Exact reproduction of the original document (extent, color and size)

Publisher: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt (ADEVA) – Graz, 1987
Binding: In leporello folding. Facsimile and introductory text encased in box with leather spine.
Commentary: 1 volume (60 pages) by N. P. Troike and F. Anders
Languages: English, German

Preface in German by F. Anders, Vienna. “Notes on the Codex Zouche-Nuttall” in English by N. P. Troike, Austin. Altogether 60 pp.
More Information: Reproduction of the entire original document as detailed as possible (scope, format, colors). The binding may not correspond to the original or current document binding.

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