Codex Ríos is an Italian translation and augmentation of a Spanish colonial-era manuscript,Codex Telleriano-Remensis, that is partially attributed to Pedro de los Ríos, aDominicanfriar working in Oaxaca and Puebla between 1547 and 1562. Thecodex itself was likely written and drawn in Italy after 1566.
The manuscript is focused on theTolteca-Chichimeca culture in the Tehuacan Valley in modern-dayPuebla andOaxaca. It can be divided into seven sections:[1]
Codex Ríos consists of 101 pages of European paper, accordion-folded. It is held in theVatican Library, Rome, and is also variously known asCodex Vatican A,Codex Vaticanus A, andCodex Vaticanus 3738.
Facsimile: Codex Vaticanus A (3738), Rome, Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, around 1580; Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt (ADEVA) Graz 1979. Colour reproduction for studies of the manuscript in possession of the Bibliotèca Apostolica Vaticana, reduced to 7/10 of the original size, i.e. to 340 x 260 mm. Miniature paintings with Italian notes. Half leather binding. Introduction: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt. 14 pp. and 192 plates. CODICES SELECTI, Vol. LXV
It is the only colonial Mexican manuscript fully annotated in Italian, and the only ancient Mexican manuscript establishing thirteen celestial layers in the Aztec cosmos and nine levels of the underworld.[2]
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