Portraying the Aztec past : the codices Boturini, Azcatitlan, and Aubin /
During the period of Aztec expansion and empire (ca. 1325-1525), scribes of high social standing used a pictographic writing system to paint hundreds of manuscripts detailing myriad aspects of life, including historical, calendric and religious information. Following the Spanish conquest, native and...
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| Language: | English |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Recovering languages and literacies of the Americas.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : portraying the Aztec past
- Codex Boturini : a pictographic paradigm
- Master and apprentice : the multiple artistic hands in Codex Azcatitlan
- Don Martin Ecatzin : Codex Azcatitlan's cosmic hero
- Traitors, intrigue, and the cosmic cycle in Codex Azcatitlan
- Codex Aubin and the influence of printed books
- Conclusion : central Mexican manuscript painting in transition
- Epilogue. Life after production
- Appendix 1. Translation of the Nahuatl glosses in Codex Azcatitlan
- Appendix 2. translation of the Nahuatl text in Codex Aubin.