Codex Zouche-Nuttall

The Codex Nuttall (also Codex Zouche - Nuttall ) is one of the surviving pre-Columbian manuscripts of the Mixtec, probably dating from the 14th century.

Description

The Codex is a 96 -page, about 11 meters long Faltbuch (Leporello) deerskin, which was coated with a polished layer of plaster and painted to 86 pages with plant and mineral pigments on both sides with pictograms and ideograms. The sides are 25.5 cm wide and 19 cm high.

Origin

The Codex comes from the area of present-day Oaxaca in Mexico. 1519 Hernán Cortés sent two books of the Indians ( " dos libros de los que tienen los yndios " ) to King Charles V, one of which is suspected as the Codex Nuttall.

The codex was discovered in 1854 in the convent of San Marco in Florence again. 1917 acquired the British Museum in London, the Codex ( Add. Mss 39671 ), subject to the British Library since 1973.

Content

The Codex contains dynastic history in which one can pursue rulers rows centuries.