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The tonalamatl was painted in the eastern part of the state of Tlaxcala, a region populated by Otomí speakers. [1] Its history during the 16th and 17th century is unknown, but according to the Library of Congress, [2] the Aubin Tonalamatl was part of a collection owned by Lorenzo Boturini Benaducci (1702-51) that was confiscated on his expulsion from New Spain in the mid-1740s.
The tonalamatl [toːnaˈlaːmatɬ] is a divinatory almanac used in central Mexico in the decades, and perhaps centuries, leading up to the Spanish conquest. The word itself is Nahuatl in origin, meaning "pages of days". [1] [2] The tonalamatl was structured around the sacred 260-day year, the tonalpohualli.
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It can be divided into three sections: An intricate tonalamatl, or divinatory calendar; documentation of the Mesoamerican 52-year cycle, showing in order the dates of the first days of each of these 52 solar years; and a section of rituals and ceremonies, particularly those that end the 52-year cycle, when the "new fire" must be lit.
As a typical calendar codex tonalamatl dealing with the sacred Aztec calendar – the tonalpohualli – it is placed in the Borgia Group. It is a divinatory almanac in 17 sections. Its elaboration is typically pre-Columbian: it is made on deerskin parchment folded accordion-style into 23 pages.
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The Aztec sun stone and a depiction of its base. The Aztec or Mexica calendar is the calendrical system used by the Aztecs as well as other Pre-Columbian peoples of central Mexico.