TheCodex Tudela is a 16th-centurypictorialAztec codex. It is based on the same prototype as theCodex Magliabechiano, theCodex Ixtlilxochitl, and other documents of theMagliabechiano Group.
Little is known about the codex's history. TheSpanish government bought the manuscript when it was rediscovered in 1940, and it is now held by theMuseo de América inMadrid. SrJosé Tudela de la Orden, after whom it was named, worked at the Museo de America and made the codex known to scholars. In Spanish it is sometimes called theCódice del Museo de América.
The Tudela Codex is a document written in mid 16th century inMexico during the early colonial stage over European laid paper. It has three parts,Libro Indígena,Libro Pintado Europeo andLibro Escrito Europeo.The first part occupies pages 11 to 125 and was painted by the Indian scribes in a Pre-Hispanic style near 1540, containing iconography and hieroglyphic writing information regarding Mexican orAztec religion; types of calendar, rituals regarding disease and death, gods of the drunk, etc. The codex is a religious document that details deities, religious rites, religious ceremonies, cosmological beliefs, calendars and rituals regarding topics such as disease and death.
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