Codex Mendoza, the Mexican manuscript known as the Collection of Mendoza and preserved in the Bodleian library, Oxford

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Title: Codex Mendoza, the Mexican manuscript known as the Collection of Mendoza and preserved in the Bodleian library, Oxford
Alternative Title: Codex Mendoza
Contributor: Bodleian Library.
Clark, James Cooper.
Published / Created: 1938.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Waterlow & Sons, Limited
Description: BEIN 2007 +198: Case mutilated.
Plan accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress.
Ortellius' map of Mexico, 1579, on lining-paper at end of v.2.
"The Mendoza codex is a Mexican pictographic manuscript prepared on the authority of Don Antonio de Mendoza, the first viceroy of New Spain, for Charles V ... A Spanish priest, familiar with the Nauatl, or Mexican language, was employed by the viceroy to set down in Spanish the explanations of the glyphs as interpreted by the Mexicans themselves."--v.1, p.3.
The facsimile includes the original pictographs in colors and the Spanish explanations.
Issued in case.
Extent: 3 v. 35cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Facsimiles
Sources
Material: XIV pl. (incl. front., ports., plan; part col.)
Subject (Geographic): Mexico
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Mexican
Indians of Mexico
Languages
Writing
Antiquities
History
Subjects: Manuscripts, Mexican > Facsimiles
Indians of Mexico > Languages > Writing
Mexico > Antiquities
Indians of Mexico
Mexico > History > To 1519 > Sources

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