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The Aubin Codex is an 81-leaf Aztec codex written in alphabetic Nahuatl on paper from Europe. Its textual and pictorial contents represent the history of the Aztec peoples who fled Aztlán , lived during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire , and into the early Spanish colonial period, ending in 1608.
The Codex Borbonicus closely mirrors the form and content of another Aztec codex, the Aubin Tonalamatl. Both containing a 20 page calendrical system, they display the 20 trecena or 13 day periods that make up the tonalpohualli or 260-day year. While both calendars display the same dates by using the same symbols, they are read differently. On ...
Scholars of the 19th century—in particular Alexander von Humboldt and William H. Prescott—translated the word Azteca, as is shown in the Aubin Codex, to Aztec. [2] [3] The southward migration is estimated to have begun on May 24, 1064 CE, [4] based on the dates of the supernova Crab Nebula from May to July 1054.
This is a list of gods and supernatural beings from the Aztec culture, its religion and mythology.Many of these deities are sourced from Codexes (such as the Florentine Codex (Bernardino de Sahagún), the Codex Borgia (Stefano Borgia), and the informants).
English: The left side of this image shows the Codex Borbonicus, an Aztec codex that contains significant information about the calendar or time keeping systems of the Aztecs. The right side shows the Aubin Tonalamatl, another codex that reveals much about the calendar system of the Nahuatl people.
Tlacotzin in the Aubin Codex Juan Velázquez Tlacotzin was an Aztec leader in Tenochtitlan , during the final decades of the Aztec Empire . He then was the first post- Spanish conquest indigenous ruler of Tenochtitlan from 1525 to 1526.
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 ...
The codex was first brought to Europe in 1840 by the French scientist Joseph Marius Alexis Aubin , and is currently held by the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. [7] The manuscript consists of six amatl boards measuring 42 cm × 48 cm (17 in × 19 in), with ten pages and three fragments from one or more pages. [8]