COLLECTION NAME:
Rylands Collection
Record
Image Number:
Bookreader Mexican MS 1
Reference Number:
Mexican MS 1
Parent Work Title:
Techialoyan codex of Tepotzotlán: Codex X
Date Created:
c1640-1733
Description:
Incomplete Techialoyan codex of Tepotzotlán, written on amatl (native paper in Nahuatl, in Aztec language, made from the bark of the Mexican fig tree). Written during the Colonial Period and uses unlinked lower-case letters of the European alphabet, although it is in Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs. The manuscript is directly linked with Tepotzotlan several times in the text in such a way as to make it clear that it was written in that village (Fols. 1r, 1v, 2v, 5r, 5v,and 6r). The text deals with the boundaries of the pueblo and the delineation of the lands owned by the townspeople of Tepotzotlan. Bookplate of Bibliotheca Lindesiana on the inside upper cover. Label of E. Boban on the inside lower cover.
Keyword:
Aztec; Aztec codices; ancient culture; ethnography; history; Central America; Mesoamerica;
Language Code:
nah
Language:
Nahuatl languages
Subject:
Legal documents
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Paper
Creation Site:
Mexico
Places Covered:
Mexico: Tepozotian
Item Height:
285 mm
Item Width:
240 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance:
Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Copyright of The University of Manchester
References:
Robertson, Donald, and McAfee, Bryon, `The Techialoyan Codex of Tepotzotlan: Codex X (Rylands Mexican ms I)'. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, vol. 43, no. 1, 1960, pp. 109-130
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2018-01-23
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2018-02
Metadata Language:
eng-GB