Manuscripts painted by pre-Columbian and colonial Aztec
Part of the first pages of Codex Mendoza, depicting the founding of Tenochtitlan.Florentine Codex, Book 12 on the conquest of Mexico from the Mexica viewpoint. (Cortez's army advancing while scouts report to Moctezuma)Diego Durán: A comet seen by Moctezuma, interpreted as a sign of impending peril. (Codex Duran, page 1)Detail of first stones from the Codex Boturini depicting the departure from Aztlán.Codex Magliabechiano: ritual cannibalism. (Folio 73r)Codex Xolotl: Chimalpopoca in Huitzilopochtli ritual attireMapa Quinatzin: Palace of NezahualcoyotlBadianus Herbal Manuscript A page of the Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis, composed in 1552 by Martín de la Cruz and translated into Latin by Juan Badianus, illustrating the tlahçolteoçacatl, tlayapaloni, axocotl and chicomacatl plants used to make a remedy for a wounded body
Aztec codices (Nahuatl languages: Mēxihcatl āmoxtliNahuatl pronunciation:[meːˈʃiʔkatɬaːˈmoʃtɬi], sing. codex) are Mesoamerican manuscripts made by the pre-Columbian Aztec, and their Nahuatl-speaking descendants during the colonial period in Mexico.
The Codex Borbonicus is an Azteccodex written by Aztec priests shortly before or after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. It is named after the...
twelve-volume Florentine Codex created by the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún, in collaboration with indigenous Aztec informants. Important for...
The Codex Mendoza is an Azteccodex, believed to have been created around the year 1541. It contains a history of both the Aztec rulers and their conquests...
in this source for Mexican and Aztec history. In 2023, the Getty Research Institute released the Digital Florentine Codex which gives access to the complete...
Codex Boturini, also known as the Tira de la Peregrinación de los Mexica (Tale of the Mexica Migration), is an Azteccodex, which depicts the migration...
The Codex Magliabechiano is a pictorial Azteccodex created during the mid-16th century, in the early Spanish colonial period. It is representative of...
The Aubin Codex is an 81-leaf Azteccodex written in alphabetic Nahuatl on paper from Europe. Its textual and pictorial contents represent the history...
The Codex Ixtlilxochitl (Nahuatl for "dark flower") is a pictorial AztecCodex created between 1580 and 1584, after the arrival of the Conquistadors and...
beings from the Aztec culture, its religion and mythology. Many of these deities are sourced from Codexes (such as the Florentine Codex (Bernardino de...
The codex (pl.: codices /ˈkoʊdɪsiːz/) was the historical ancestor of the modern book. Instead of being composed of sheets of paper, it used sheets of...
The Codex Tudela is a 16th-century pictorial Azteccodex. It is based on the same prototype as the Codex Magliabechiano, the Codex Ixtlilxochitl, and other...
The Aztec Empire or the Triple Alliance (Classical Nahuatl: Ēxcān Tlahtōlōyān, [ˈjéːʃkaːn̥ t͡ɬaʔtoːˈlóːjaːn̥]) was an alliance of three Nahua city-states:...
the Florentine Codex, Codex Mendoza and the Codex Magliabechiano, including others. Philosophy portal Tlacaelel Government of the Aztec Empire Indigenous...
account of Aztec sacrifices were made by Spanish sources to justify Spain's conquest. Nonetheless, according to Codex Telleriano-Remensis, old Aztecs who talked...
depicted in the twelfth book of the Florentine Codex. This taunting is also depicted in an Azteccodex which relates the story, and the subsequent battles...
The Codex Xolotl (also known as Codicé Xolotl) is a postconquest cartographic Azteccodex, thought to have originated before 1542. It is annotated in...
Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire was a pivotal event in the history of the Americas, marked by the collision of the Aztec Triple Alliance and the...
the sea Chalchiutlicue." List of water deities Creation myth Codex Borgia Chicomecoatl Aztec religion Cecilio A. Robelo (1905). Diccionario de Mitología...
Aztec warfare concerns the aspects associated with the militaristic conventions, forces, weaponry and strategic expansions conducted by the Late Postclassic...
deity and also point to his centrality in Aztec worship. Bernardino de Sahagún, in Book VI of the Florentine Codex, refers to Tezcatlipoca with 360 different...
Codex Azcatitlan is an Azteccodex detailing the history of the Mexica and their migration journey from Aztlán to the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire...
The Aztec or Mexica calendar is the calendrical system used by the Aztecs as well as other Pre-Columbian peoples of central Mexico. It is one of the Mesoamerican...