Codex_Mexicanus
Codex Mexicanus
Mexican pictorial manuscript
The Codex Mexicanus is an early colonial Mexican pictorial manuscript.
The Codex can be divided into several sections:
- The saints, the European calendar and zodiac.
- The Aztec calendar.
- Accounts in the Aztec pictographic writing system.
- A family tree of the rulers of Mexico.
- The history of the Mexica from their departure from Aztlan.
- Colonial history.
- Two Christian scenes: the Temptation of Christ and the Adoration.
- A tonalamatl. This last section is incomplete.
It is currently held in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.