Vergara Codex

Mexicain 37-39 Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris, France)

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Vergara Codex

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Alternative Titles: Códice Vergara: Edición Facsimilar con Comentario
Vergara-Codex
Codex de Vergara
Document cadastral daté de 1539 et portant le nom de Marqués del Valle Virey (sic), titre du conquérant Hernán Cortés
Type: Manuscript on paper
Size / Format: 112 pages / 31.0 × 22.0 cm
Origin
Style: Pre-Columbian
Genre: Chronicles / History / Letters
Tournament Books / Armorials / Genealogy
Language: Spanish
Script: Pictographs
Illustrations: Numerous illustrations of people, houses, and fields, some in the form of diagrams
Content: Documentation of a land and population census in the Aztec settlements of Calcantloxiuco, Topotitlan, Patlachiuca, Teocatitla, and Texcalticpac
Previous Owners: Lorenzo Boturini Benaduci
Joseph-Marius-Alexis Aubin
E. Eugène Goupil

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#1 Códice Vergara: Edición Facsimilar con Comentario

Binding: The commentary is bound together with the facsimile.

Commentary: 1 volume by Barbara J. Williams and Frederic Hicks
Language: Spanish

Complete color reproduction of the original “Vergara Codex” at its original size. The facsimile aims to reproduce the original’s appearance, feel and physical characteristics as faithfully as possible. The pages are trimmed to the original format. The binding may differ from the original’s present-day binding.

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