Colección de Códices Originales Mexicanos

Colección de Códices Originales Mexicanos
World document heritage
Tlatelolco Codex
State (s):	Mexico
Duration:	93 originals, 68 facsimiles
Period:	16th Century
Storage:	National Museum of Anthropology , Mexico City .
Register link:	Collection of Mexican Codices
Admission:	1997 ( session 3 )

The Colección de Códices Originales Mexicanos ("Collection of Original Mexican Codices") is a codex collection of the Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia in the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City . It comprises a codex from the pre-colonial period ( Codex Colombino ), 92 original codices and codex fragments from the colonial period and 68 historical facsimiles . Most of these illuminated manuscripts were created in the 16th century. In 1997 the collection was included in the UNESCO World Document Heritage .

History of the collection

The foundation of the holdings, which is now in the Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia, is the collection that Lorenzo Boturini brought together between 1736 and 1743. He was able to integrate earlier book holdings by Alva Ixtlilxochtli and Sigüenza y Góngora into his collection.

Since the end of the 19th century, Boturini's collection, which was in the Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Historia y Etnografía, was enlarged by further acquisitions. The most important acquisition was the Colombino Codex (1891), the only original of a pre-Spanish Codex in Mexico. The most recent significant donation is the Codex de la Cruz-Badiano .

Content

Not all codices have a clear main topic. The Dehesa Codex is a compendium of historical, genealogical, religious-ritual and calendar texts.

The oldest codex, the Colombino Codex from pre-Hispanic times, contains genealogical information about aristocratic dynasties. In the colonial era, too, genealogical texts were created in order to enforce inheritance claims in legal disputes. Another group of texts are of a ritual-calendar nature. Maps and plans can also provide historical and genealogical information. Tax lists contain information about economic life before and during the colonial era. Jacobo de Testera is considered to be the author of several Christian books in which traditional imagery was used for catechesis . The botanical-medical Codex de la Cruz-Badiano was written at the instigation of the colonial rulers who were interested in the relevant knowledge of the indigenous population.

Codices preserved in the original

The following list adopts the information on the individual codices from the information on nomination for UNESCO World Heritage Sites:

image	Surname	Time of origin	description
	Huamantla Codex	16th Century	6 fragments
	Plan of part of Mexico City	16th Century	238 × 168 cm
	Baranda Codex	17th century	37 × 228 cm
	La Cueva Codex	16th Century	77.5 × 160 cm
	Annals of Tula	16th Century	17 × 487 cm
	Code of expenditure	16th Century	104 × 32 cm
	Plan of Sigüenza	16th Century	54.5 × 77.5 cm
	Coatlinchan plan	16th Century	44.5 × 41.5 cm
	Cuetlaxcohuapan Codex	around 1530	50.7 × 35.8 cm
	Sevina cloth	16th Century	125 x 97.5 cm
	Coateptl's plan	16th Century	56 × 42 cm
	Mauricio de la Arena Codex	16th Century	6 fragments
	Chavero Codex	around 1579	6 fragments
	Moctezuma Codex	16th Century	250 × 20 cm
	Genealogy of a family from Tepeticpac	16th Century	119.5 x 58.8 cm
	Quiotepec and Cuicatlán Codex	16th Century	61 × 102 cm
	Colombino Codex	Originated before the Spanish conquest	24 pages, 18.5 × 606.5 cm
	Plan of Cuauahtinchan	16th Century	Several parts
	Contlanzinco paintings	18th century	74 × 53.5 cm
	Santo Tomás Xochtlan painting	18th century	67 × 41 cm
	Mixtec Codex from the time after Cortes	16th Century	85 × 87 cm
	Boturini Codex	around 1540	9.8 × 549 cm
	Tlatelolco Codex	around 1565	40 × 325 cm
	Nahuatzen cloth	16th Century	72 × 102 cm
	Zolin genealogy	16th Century	44 × 35 cm
	García Granados Codex	17th century	49.5 × 674 cm
	Porfirio Díaz Codex	17th century	21 pages, 15.5 × 421 cm
	Dehesa Codex	17th century	23 pages, 17.5 × 498 cm
	Tax register	16th Century	16 pages, 42 × 29 cm
	Prayer book	16th Century	11 pages, 15.6 × 11 cm
	Cholula Codex	around 1586	112 × 166 cm
	Santa Cruz Tlamapa Tax Code	1577	8 sheets, 383.5 × 31 cm
	Tequitlato de Zapotitlán Codex	around 1561	25.6 × 85 cm
	Incomplete topographical codex	16th Century	102 × 112 cm
	Metztepetl Genealogy	16th Century?	88 × 68 cm
	Zacatepec cloth	16th Century	325 × 225 cm
	Codex of the Lords of San Lorenzo Axotlán and San Luis Huexotla	around 1672	29 x 111.5 cm
	San Antonio Techialoyan Codex	17th century	26 × 21 cm
	Tizimin book by Chilam Balam	18th century	21.5 x 14.6 cm
	Ixil book by Chilam Balam	18th century	44 pages, 21.5 × 14.6 cm
	Muro Codex	17th century	14.8 x 223 cm
	San Juan Teotihuacan Codex	around 1557	139 × 75 cm
	Tlaxcala Codex	16th Century	97.5 × 83 cm
	Tax fragment	around 1570	38 x 18.9 cm
	Xalapa Codex	1540	81.5 × 45.5 cm
	Plan of a wooded area	16th Century	7.5 x 4.5 cm
	Plan of Otumba	17th century	106 × 61.5 cm
	Plan of Tepecuacuilco	16th Century	113 × 102 cm
	Caltecpaneca fragment	16th Century	18 × 55 cm
	Pitzahua genealogy	16th Century	26 × 31 cm
	Nopalxochitl Genealogy	16th Century	22 × 31 cm
	Genealogies of Nexmoyotla, Ateno, Zoyatitlan, and Heuytetla	17th century	31.5 × 86.5 cm
	Genealogies of Tetlamaca and Tlametzin	16th Century	111 × 60 cm
	Genealogies of Cotitzin and Zozahuic	16th Century	32.5 × 17 cm
	Genealogies of the lords of Etla	17th century	6 sheets
	Teotenantzin Codex	18th century	44 × 117 cm
	Codex of Don Andrés' possessions	16th Century	15.7 x 86.6 cm
	Plan of Santa María Nativitas Tultepeque	around 1578	72 × 64 cm
	San Cristóbal Coyotepec Codex	17th century	74 × 96 cm
	Plan on Amatl paper	16th Century	40.5 × 34 cm
	Lachiyoo's plan	18th century	107 × 85 cm
	San Juan Nayotla cloth	1590	194 × 236 cm
	Castile coat of arms	16th Century	41 × 34 cm
	Ixtapalapa Codex	17th century	58 × 37 cm
	Azoyú Codex	16th Century	two parts
	Tlapa cloth	17th century	285 × 76 cm
	Chinantla cloth	17th century?	110 x 130 cm
	Coixtlahuaca cloth	16th Century	425 × 300 cm
	Cloth from Tecciztlan and Tequatepec	16th Century	280 × 170 cm
	Certificates from Tocuaro	17th century	12 pages
	Mizquiahuala Tax Code	around 1570	2 fragments
	Porrua Turanzas Codex	16th Century	9 fragments
	Yatini cloth	18th century	160 × 117 cm
	Valeriano Codex	1574	22 x 31.8 cm
	San Lucas Yataú cloth	17th century	105 × 86 cm
	View of the Chiapa River	18th century	37 × 142 cm
	Cristo de Mexicaltzinco Codices	17th century	7 fragments
	Cuauhtli genealogy	16th Century	21.4 x 30.2 cm
	Analco cloth	16th Century	173 × 262 cm
	Plan by Cuauhtlantzinco	17th century	9 sheets
	Gómez de Orozco Codex (Catechism)	16th Century	6 pages
	San Juan Huautla painting	17th century	107 × 105 cm
	Chan Kan book by Chilam Balam	19th century	128 sheets
	Pérez Codex	around 1837	239 sheets
	Codex de la Cruz-Badiano	16th Century

literature

• Mexico - Collection of Mexican Codices . Nomination Form for the Memory of the World International Register. 1997 (English, unesco.org [PDF; 73 kB ]).

Web links

• Collection of Mexican Codices on the UNESCO World Document Heritage website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Memory of the World International Register Nomination Form: Mexico - Collection of Mexican Codices , p. 1.
2. ^ Memory of the World International Register Nomination Form: Mexico - Collection of Mexican Codices , p. 6.
3. ^ Memory of the World International Register Nomination Form: Mexico - Collection of Mexican Codices , p. 7.
4. ^ Memory of the World International Register Nomination Form: Mexico - Collection of Mexican Codices , pp. 7–8.
5. ^ Memory of the World International Register Nomination Form: Mexico - Collection of Mexican Codices , pp. 2-4.

Coordinates: 19 ° 25 ′ 34 ″  N , 99 ° 11 ′ 10 ″  W.