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The Codex Nuttall : a picture manuscript from ancient Mexico : the Peabody Museum facsimile / Edited by Zelia Nuttall

By:

Melzer, Richard

Contributor(s):

Miller, Arthur G

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Dover Publications , 1975Description: 84 p. : illus. ; 22 cmISBN:

0486231682

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

LAS 745.67 NUT

LOC classification:

PN4874.P86 M45 1996

Summary: Originating in what is now the State of Oaxaca, Mexico, the Codex Nuttall was painted by Mixtec artists at some time not to long before the Spanish Conquest. It is, in effect a Book of Kings, one of a series of masterworks narrating in picture and hieroglyph the sacred history of the Mixtecs. Centering around the year 1000 AD., it shows the births of kings, their marriages, offspring and major events in their lives.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Latin American Studies	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS 745.67 NUT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		030949

Originating in what is now the State of Oaxaca, Mexico, the Codex Nuttall was painted by Mixtec artists at some time not to long before the Spanish Conquest. It is, in effect a Book of Kings, one of a series of masterworks narrating in picture and hieroglyph the sacred history of the Mixtecs. Centering around the year 1000 AD., it shows the births of kings, their marriages, offspring and major events in their lives.

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