Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
1-20 of 428 Search Results for
codex
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
1
Image
in The Serpent Within: Birth Rituals and Midwifery Practices in Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Mesoamerican Cultures
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 October 2019
Figure 7. Weaving almanac on page 102b of the Madrid Codex ( Troano Codex ) (Brasseur de Bourbourg 1869–70 : Pl. XI), courtesy of Boundary End Center, Barnardsville, NC.
More
Image
in The Serpent Within: Birth Rituals and Midwifery Practices in Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Mesoamerican Cultures
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 October 2019
Figure 8. Weaving almanac on page 102d of the Madrid Codex ( Troano Codex ) (Brasseur de Bourbourg 1869–70 : Pl. XI), courtesy of Boundary End Center, Barnardsville, NC.
More
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (2): 348–349.
Published: 01 April 2011
...Yanna Yannakakis The Search for the Codex Cardona: On the Trail of a Sixteenth-Century Mexican Treasure . By Bauer Arnold J. . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2009 . xi +208 pp., 8 color illustrations, bibliography, index . $21.95 paper, $74.95 cloth.) Copyright 2011...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (3): 403–432.
Published: 01 July 2001
...Bas van Doesburg This article analyzes the complex and sometimes deceiving relationship that might exist between the pictographic text and toponymic glosses in Oaxacan screenfolds from the sixteenth century. The case of the Codex Porfirio Díaz shows that these glosses represent not only boundaries...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (1): 51–72.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Kevin Terraciano A sixteenth-century manuscript known as the Florentine Codex is an outstanding example of graphic pluralism in early colonial Mexico. The codex consists of twelve books on many aspects of Nahua culture and language, presented in parallel columns of Nahuatl- and Castilian-language...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (3): 629–630.
Published: 01 July 2006
...J. Kathryn Josserand The Madrid Codex: New Approaches to Understanding an Ancient Maya Manuscript. Edited by Gabrielle Vail and Anthony Aveni. (Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 2004. xviii + 426 pp., foreword, preface, list of abbreviations, 12 articles with individual bibliographies, 109...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (1): 71–94.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Pablo García Loaeza Abstract This article considers the interplay among interpretation, intent, and ingenuity involved in don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s transcoding of the Codex Xolotl in the first part of his definitive work, the Historia de la nación chichimeca , by way of his earlier...
FIGURES
| View All (5)
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (4): 683–706.
Published: 01 October 2015
...Catherine R. DiCesare This study examines the unusual colonial Codex Borbonicus image of a pre-Columbian springtime festival known as Huey Tozoztli. It attends to the special prominence the Borbonicus gives to the rain god Tlaloc, a dedication at odds with more usual venerations to the maize...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 497–524.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Kevin Terraciano The Codex Sierra Texupan is a sixty-two-page libro de cuentas , or book of community accounts, that combines Nahuatl-language writing with a parallel pictorial component. Indigenous writers and artists in the Mixteca Alta region of the modern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, compiled...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (4): 623–645.
Published: 01 October 2019
..., Moteuczoma receives much of the blame. Historians contend that Moteuczoma’s cowardice facilitated the defeat of his people. Instead, this article argues that descriptions of the pain and fright that afflicted Moteuczoma and his people in Book XII of the Florentine Codex are references to long-standing...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (3): 429–453.
Published: 01 July 2020
... of the Florentine Codex, devoted to “earthly things,” this analysis re-entangles hummingbird ethology with Huitzilopochtli’s cult, a bond that was severed in the early days of colonization. A close reading of the Nahuatl, Spanish, and visual texts in this book reveals that seasonal cycles and hummingbird behavior...
FIGURES
| View All (4)
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (4): 559–560.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Rebecca Dufendach The Codex Mexicanus: A Guide to Life in Late Sixteenth-Century New Spain . By Lori Boornazian Diel . ( Austin : University of Texas Press , 2018 . viii+164 pp., appendices, color plates, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00 hardcover.). Copyright 2021 by American...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (4): 455–491.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Jerome A. Offner Abstract Only one of two opening compositions in the Codex Xolotl has been recognized. The conventional version shows the entry of Xolotl, Nopaltzin, and six lesser rulers into the Basin of Mexico from near Tula, Hidalgo, followed by settlement at Xoloc and later a place...
FIGURES
| View All (18)
Image
in Pedro de Alvarado, Tonatiuh: Reconsidering Apotheosis in Nahua and Highland Maya Narratives of the Spanish Invasion
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 January 2022
Figure 2. Illustration of the Toxcatl massacre in Codex Aubin, f. 41v. A musician playing a huehuetl drum confronts an armed Spaniard in the Great Precinct of Mexico. Courtesy of Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
More
Image
in Pedro de Alvarado, Tonatiuh: Reconsidering Apotheosis in Nahua and Highland Maya Narratives of the Spanish Invasion
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 January 2022
Figure 6. Death of Pedro de Alvarado in the year 10 House, 1541. Detail from Codex Telleriano-Remensis, f. 46r. Courtesy of Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
More
Image
Published: 01 April 2022
Figure 9. Nezahualcoyotl, Codex Ixtlilxochitl , (fol. 106r), Bibliotèque nationale de France.
More
Image
in Tangled Strands of Silk: Globalizing the Local in Early Modern San Miguel Achiutla, Oaxaca
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 July 2022
Figure 3. Folio 45r of the Codex Mendoza . Toponyms on the left margin depict, from top to bottom, Tlaxiaco, Achiutla, and Tzapotlan.
More
Image
Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 1. Codex Telleriano-Remensis, folio 45 recto. Courtesy Biblioteque National de France.
More
Image
Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 2. Codex Mendoza, frontispiece. Courtesy Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
More
Image
Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 3. Egerton Codex, Lord’s Prayer in Testerian hieroglyphics with Nahuatl translation. Courtesy British Museum.
More
1
