TheCodex Fejérváry-Mayer is anAztec Codex of central Mexico. It is one of the rare Native American manuscripts that have survived theSpanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. As a typical calendar codextonalamatl dealing with the sacred Aztec calendar – thetonalpohualli – it is placed in theBorgia Group. It is a divinatory almanac in 17 sections. Its elaboration is typically pre-Columbian: it is made on deerskin parchment folded accordion-style into 23 pages. It measures 16.2 centimetres by 17.2 centimetres and is 3.85 metres long.[1]
The earliest history of the codex is unknown. It is named after Gabriel Fejérváry (1780–1851), a Hungarian collector, andJoseph Mayer (1803–1886), an English antiquarian who bought the codex from Fejérváry. In 2004 Maarten Jansen and Gabina Aurora Pérez Jiménez proposed that it be given the indigenous nameCodex Tezcatlipoca, from theNahuatl name of the godTezcatlipoca (who is shown, with black-and-yellow facial striping, in the centre of its first page), although it is not certain that its creators wereNahuas.[2]
It is currently kept in theWorld Museum Liverpool inLiverpool,England, having as its catalogue # 12014 M.[3] It is published in Volume 26 of the seriesCodices Selecti of the Akademische Druck - u. Verlagsanstalt - Graz. It is believed to have originated specifically inVeracruz.
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