The Codex Mendoza is an Aztec codex, believed to have been created around the year 1541. It contains a history of both the Aztec rulers and their conquests...
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Maguey, Codex Boturini and the Codex Borgia; and a later one, which would comprise Codex Mendoza, Codex Telleriano-Remensis, Codex Osuna, Codex Mexicanus...
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Durán Codex, Ramírez Codex, and Codex Borgia. The Codex Mendoza contains multiple depictions of tzompantli. The Frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza depicts...
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commissioned by the colonial government, for example, Codex Mendoza, were painted by Aztec tlacuilos (codex creators), but under the control of Spanish authorities...
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codex (pl.: codices /ˈkoʊdɪsiːz/) was the historical ancestor format of the modern book. Technically the vast majority of modern books use the codex format...
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Manuel Aguilar-Moreno, Facts on File, New York, 2006 The Essential Codex Mendoza by Frances F. Berdan and Patricia Rieff Anawalt, University of California...
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Battle of Tlatelolco (section The Codex Mendoza)
failed, resulting in the death of Moquihuix who is pictured in the Codex Mendoza tumbling down the Great Temple of Tlatelolca. As a result of the battle...
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ISBN 978-0-486-40726-5 Frances Berdan, Patricia Rieff Anawalt, The Codex Mendoza, Verlag University of California Press, 1992, page 6, ISBN 978-0-520-06234-4...
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His name glyph, shown in the upper left corner of the image from the Codex Mendoza below, was composed of a diadem (xiuhuitzolli) on straight hair with...
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four other Mesoamerican codices: Codex Bodley, Codex Mendoza, Codex Selden and the Selden Roll. Other views of the Codex Laud on display at the Bodleian...
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was used for war or as a tool. Its use is documented by the Codex Mendoza and the Codex Fejérváry-Mayer. Tax collectors from the Aztec Empire demanded...
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Mendoza, a family of Spanish nobles who originated from Álava, Basque Country, Spain 3868 Mendoza, a main-belt asteroid Codex Mendoza, an Aztec codex...
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Philippines in 1542–43. The Codex Mendoza created by the order of Mendoza, and subsequently named for him. During his term of office, Mendoza is credited with consolidating...
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suit and the cone-shaped cap appearance are the most common within the Codex Mendoza. A four captive warrior, which would be an eagle or jaguar warrior,...
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painted or covered with featherwork. They are depicted frequently in the Codex Mendoza, and many other central Mexican codices, usually with the xicalcoliuhqui...
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pictured in the Codex Mendoza' and the Florentine Codex, Aztec codices created between 1540 and 1585. Tribute records from the Mendoza Codex, Matrícula de...
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significant tribute item. As discussed by scholar Ross Hassig, the Codex Mendoza denotes that cloth and clothing were represented as cargas in the tribute...
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pp. 200–202. Berdan, Francis F.; Patricia Rieff Anawalt (1992). The Codex Mendoza Vol. 1. University of California Press. p. 196. Brumfiel, Elizabeth...
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Oconahua (section Codex Mendoza)
Aztec empire was at its largest when the Spanish arrived in 1519. The Codex Mendoza shows all the lands that Moctezuma conquered. Many territories regularly...
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codices are preserved, most notably the Codex Mendoza, the Florentine Codex, and the works by Diego Durán. Codex Mendoza (around 1541) is a mixed pictorial...
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museum in the house of his birth. Anenecuilco is first mentioned in Codex Mendoza as belonging to the prehispanic jurisdiction of Huaxtepec (Oaxtepec)...
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Atonal was ritually strangled and his family was taken as slaves. The Codex Mendoza records that the tribute owed by Coixtlahuaca consisted of 2000 blankets...
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depicted striving at this game against other gods. For example, in the Codex Mendoza we see him playing with the moon-god, and can recognize him by the sign...
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and the Huastecs of Veracruz and Aztec (e.g., as illustrated in the Codex Mendoza). The Kabiri of New Guinea have the diba, a pointed hat glued together...
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Telleriano Remensis, Codex Ixtlilxochitl, Codex Tudela, Codex Magliabechiano, Codex Mendoza, the Matrícula de Tributos, Codex Badianus, Relación de Michoacan....
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Bodleian Library holds four other Mesoamerican codices: Codex Bodley, Codex Laud, Codex Mendoza, and the Selden Roll, recently renamed The Roll of the...
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of Mexico against Cuauhnahuac (Cuernavaca). According to the Florentine Codex, Itzcoatl ordered the burning of all historical codices because it was "not...
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Sahagún's Florentine Codex of the General History of the Things of New Spain (Books III, VI, and VIII) and part 3 of the Codex Mendoza. The calmecac of the...
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were described in Aztec codices (including the Durán Codex, the Codex Tudela and the Codex Mendoza) as wearing their hair untouched, allowing it to grow...
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Page from the Codex Mendoza depicting warriors wearing ichcahuipilli and tlahuiztli suits....
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