Scientific or magical text in an unidentified language, in cipher, apparently based on Roman minuscule characters; the text is believed by some scholars to be the work of Roger Bacon since the themes of the illustrations seem to represent topics known...
Nahuatl map on maguey paper documenting agricultural holdings in the Valley of Mexico, probably fields of bulrush or maize under the colonial jurisdiction of Tenochtitlan-Mexico City, ca. 1565
Description:
Available on x-ray film
Subject (Geographic):
Mexico, Mexico., Mexico City (Mexico), and Mexico, Valley of (Mexico)
Subject (Name):
Alvarado Huanitzin, Don Diego de., Cecepátic, Don Cristóbal de., Guzmán, Don Esteban de., San Francisco Tehuetzquititzin, Don Diego de., Santa María Cipac, Don Luis de., and Velasco, Luis de, 1500?-1564.
Subject (Topic):
Agriculture, Corn, Indian cartography, Indians of Mexico, Discovery and exploration, History, Maps, and Early works to 1800
Manuscript of a Manual containing 18 works, including instructions of Mass, moral instructions, meditations for prayer, a calendar, and two works ascribed to Thomas Aquinas
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274. and Carthusians.
BEIN 1983 Folio 19: Imperfect: mutilated along fold, with some loss of text; portions of decorative border cut or torn and repaired; tears repaired. Sheet measures 46.1 x 55 cm. No. 26 of 92 maps bound together.
