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Contributors:

Anders, Ferdinand

Jansen, Maarten E. R. G. N. (Maarten Evert Reinoud Gerard Nicolaas), 1952-

Cruz Ortiz, Alejandra

Reyes García, Luis

Languages:

Spanish
Nahuatl
Central American Indian (Other)

Language Notes:

Item content: Spanish, Nahuatl, Central American Indian (Other)
Translated from (original): Central American Indian (Other)

Main Work:

Codex Laud

Included Works:

Pintura de la muerte y de los destinos [by Anders, F.]

Xiku ña chanu [by Cruz Ortiz, A.] (Spanish)

Xiku ña chanu [by Cruz Ortiz, A.] (Mixtec)

Related Series:

Códices mexicanos; [volume] 6

Subjects:

Codex Laud

Manuscripts, Nahuatl — Facsimiles

Aztecs — Religion

Nahuatl language — Writing

Manuscripts, Mexican — England — Oxford — Facsimiles

Manuscripts, Nahuatl

Aztecs

Nahuatl language

Manuscripts, Mexican

England — Oxford

Genres:

Codex Replicas — Mesoamerican

Facsimiles

General Notes:

The contents of the reproduced codex, pictorial throughout, may be viewed, wholly or in part, as pictographic writing expressing Aztec (Nahuatl) concepts; the interpretive commentary is in Spanish (it includes also some thematically related texts in modern Mixtec with Spanish translation).
Issued in a case, 30 x 30 cm.
Title from case; imprint from the accompanying commentary volume.
The full-col. facsim. is, like the original, folded accordion-style to form 24 quasi-leaves; the facsim. carries on its added border the modern pagination 1(24)-24(1) on one side and 25(46)-46(25) on the other in the reverse direction, omitting blank versos of pp. 1(24) and 24(1).
The unbound commentary volume has t.p.: La pintura de la muerte y de los destinos : libro explicativo del llamado Códice Laud, Misc. 678, Bodleian Library, Oxford, Inglaterra / introducción y explicación: Ferdinand Anders, Maarten Jansen ; con una contribución de Alejandra Cruz Ortiz. At head of title : Ferdinand Anders (Viena), Maarten Jansen (Leiden), Luis Reyes Garcia (México): (Comisión Técnica Investigadora).
"Xiku ña chanu, Uipil de novia" (by Alejandra Cruz Ortiz, in modern Mixtec with Spanish translation): commentary vol., p. 140-146.
Includes bibliographical references (commentary vol., p. 299-315).

Physical Description:

1 folded strip (46 pages) : color facsimiles : ; 18 x 864 cm folded to 18 x 18 cm + 1 accompanying volume (318, [1] pages : ill. ; 23 cm).

Physical Characteristics:

18 x 864 cm folded to 18 x 18 cm; polychrome

Call Numbers:

F1219.56.C624 C63 1994

ISBNs:

9681644794

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

97183585

OCLC Numbers:

1051621912
40602630 [Invalid]