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During the 19th century, the word 'codex' became popular to designate any pictorial manuscript in the Mesoamerican tradition. In reality, pre-Columbian manuscripts are, strictly speaking, not codices, since the strict librarian usage of the word denotes manuscript books made of vellum, papyrus and other materials besides paper, that have been sewn on one side. [1]
The text of this manuscript is closest to Codex Sinaiticus (א ), and together they are witnesses for one of the early textual types of the Book of Revelation. [7] Another type is represented by the manuscripts Papyrus 115 ( 𝔓 115 ) , Codex Alexandrinus (A), and Codex Ephraemi (C). [ 7 ]
The Andreas text-type has also been called a subtype of the Majority Text in Revelation, which is divided into the Koine form of Revelation and the Andreas type of Revelation. [2] Manuscripts belonging to the Andreas text-type are primarily found in manuscript of Andreas' commentary although there exists Andreas manuscripts which do not contain ...
Papyrus 115, also known as P. Oxy. 4499, is a fragmented manuscript of the New Testament written in Greek on papyrus. It is designated by the siglum 𝔓 115 in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts. It consists of 26 fragments of a codex containing parts of the Book of Revelation. [1]
A major publication project by scholars of Mesoamerican ethnohistory was brought to fruition in the 1970s: volume 14 of the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources: Part Three is devoted to Middle American pictorial manuscripts, including numerous reproductions of single pages of important pictorials. This volume ...
The first page of the Codex Fejérváry-Mayer.. The Borgia Group is the scholarly designation of a number of mostly pre-Columbian documents from central Mexico.In 1830–1831, they were first published in their entirety as colored lithographs of copies made by an Italian artist, Agustino Aglio, in volumes 2 and 3 of Lord Kingsborough's monumental work titled Antiquities of Mexico.
Depiction of the "River of Life" (right), from the Book of Revelation, Urgell Beatus, (f°198v–199), 10th centuryThe Urgell Beatus, Beatus d'Urgell or Beatus la Seu d'Urgell is a 10th-century illuminated manuscript of the Commentary on the Apocalypse by the 8th-century monk Beatus of Liebana, now in the Musei Diocesá de La Seu d'Urgell, at La Seu d'Urgell, Spain.
Preaching With Pictures: How Hieroglyphic Catechisms Shaped Native Mesoamerican Christianity in Sixteenth-Century Mexico. Normann, Anne (1985). Testerian Codices: Hieroglyphic Catechisms for Native Conversion in New Spain (Latin America, Catholic Church, Indians, missionaries, Mexico). Tulane University. Robertson, Donald (1994).