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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.
Image of the Aubin Tonalamatl. The Aubin Tonalamatl is a Nahuatl screenfold manuscript painted on native paper. It was made sometime in the early 16th century, but after 1520. [1] The word "tonalamatl" is made up of two Nahuatl words, "tonalli" meaning day, and "amatl" referring to the paper substrate that this codex is written on. [2]
Among other topics, Codex Aubin has a native description of the massacre at the temple in Tenochtitlan in 1520. The second part of this codex is a list of the native rulers of Tenochtitlan, up to 1607. It is held by the British Museum and a copy of its commentary is at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
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.
The Boturini Codex establishes that after abandoning Atitalaquia, Tlamaco was founded in the year 7-Rabbit (1173) [2] and they remained in the place for 5 years. Later they left for Atotonilco in the year 11-Conejo. The Aubin Codex refers to the founding of Tlamaco with the following: [3] Auh niman iconmiquanique in Tlemaco in mexica.
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 content of the Boturini Codex has much in common with the later Aubin Codex, which records nearly the exact itinerary as the Boturini Codex. The exception are discrepancies in dates for the first six sites of the migration, and at the end of the Aubin Codex. The latter codex emphasizes dates of arrival rather than of departure.