Matrícula de Huexotzinco

Made by Franciscan Father Bernardino de Sahagún and of singular cultural value today: the unique testimony of the culture, history, and religion of the indigenous peoples of Central America in wonderful images

One of the most beautifully decorated Mixtec manuscripts still preserved today: the mythological and historical events of a lost world recorded on a nearly 14-meter-long liporello

A unique insight into the structures of the legendary Aztec Empire: the most important source on the inner workings of the empire ruled from Tenochtitlan, created shortly before the conquest and magnificently illuminated around 1540

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

The concrete and vivid insight into Aztec society before the European conquest: their rulers, their territories, their own conquests, and the tributes paid to them