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Codex Vergara - records the border lengths of Mesoamerican farms and calculates their areas. [ 39 ] Codex Xolotl - a pictorial codex recounting the history of the Valley of Mexico , and Texcoco in particular, from Xolotl's arrival in the Valley to the defeat of Azcapotzalco in 1428.
A third component the codex, called "The Asunción Land Title," is a lengthy account in Nahuatl that sets the territorial boundaries of the settlement (tlaxilacalli) of Santa María Asunción. [ 1 ] Analysis of this codex along with Codex Vergara have revealed details of a complex land survey system utilized by the Aztecs including the ability ...
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]
Chinampas are depicted in pictorial Aztec codices, including Codex Vergara, Codex Santa María Asunción, the so-called Uppsala Map, [30] and the Maguey Plan (from Azcapotzalco). [31] In alphabetic Nahuatl documentation, The Testaments of Culhuacan from the late sixteenth century have numerous references to chinampas as property that ...
The Dresden Codex (Codex Dresdensis) is held in the Sächsische Landesbibliothek (SLUB), the state library in Dresden, Germany. It is the most elaborate of the codices, and also a highly important specimen of Maya art .
Page from Codex Sinaiticus with text of Matthew 6:4–32 Alexandrinus – Table of κεφάλαια (table of contents) to the Gospel of Mark. The great uncial codices or four great uncials are the only remaining uncial codices that contain (or originally contained) the entire text of the Bible (Old and New Testament) in Greek.
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The Codex Gigas, 13th century, Bohemia. The codex (pl.: codices / ˈ k oʊ d ɪ s iː z /) [1] was the historical ancestor format of the modern book.Technically, the vast majority of modern books use the codex format of a stack of pages bound at one edge, along the side of the text.