Codex Borbonicus

Codex Borbonicus

The Codex Borbonicus is considered to be the only Aztec codex whose style matches the pre-Conquest Náhuatl style, but is considered by some scholars to be a colonial copy. It contains the Aztec calendar displaying constellations of the gods along with popular celebrations. The Codex Borbonicus contains no European pictorial or iconographical influences.

The facsimile is of a single 46 ½ x 15 ½ inch sheet of amatl paper folded accordion-fashion into 36 leaves. Three additional pages of commentary in English, French, and German are subsequently included in the facsimile. The Codex Borbonicus facsimile and commentary are contained together in a book casing with a leather spine.

Original MS: Aztec priests before Spanish conquest of Mexico

Facsimile: UNT Special Collections Library, Call Number: F1219.56.C43 1974
Original MS: Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Assemblée Nationale, MS Y 120

Graz: Akadem. Druck- u. Verlagsanst

Facsimile: 1974
Original MS: 16th century

Commentary: Karl Anton Nowotny and Jacqueline de Durand-Forest

Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt

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Single 118.1 x 39.4 cm sheet of amatl paper folded accordion-fashion into 36 leaves, 39 pages

Facsimile: Pictorial
Commentary: English, French, and German

Aztec codex

Pre-Conquest Aztecan calendars

Pre-Conquest Aztec art, 16th century

Prepared by Ethan Cramer