Codex Telleriano-Remensis : ritual, divination, and history in a pictorial Aztec manuscript
Eloise Quiñones Keber (Author, Compiler, Annotator),Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie,Michel Besson (Illustrator)
"As one of the finest surviving examples of the art of Aztec manuscript painting, the Codex Telleriano-Remensis provides invaluable information about the core of Aztec culture. In this landmark publication, Eloise Quiñones Keber presents the first photographic color facsimile of the entire codex, accompanied by the most extensive commentary ever undertaken on its abundant images and Spanish annotations and the first English translation of its texts. Produced in sixteenth-century colonial Mexico, the codex consists of a ceremonial calendar of the "months" of the year, a divinatory almanac featuring the deities that determined the fates of the days, and a history of the Aztecs from their legendary migration in the twelfth century through the first decades of Spanish occupation. Dr. Quiñones Keber's commentary offers new data and hypotheses regarding the physical features of the manuscript, its origins, dating, authorship, prototypes, Spanish influence, and relationship to its partial cognate, the Codex Vaticanus A. Now owned by the Bibliotheque Nationale of Paris, the Codex Telleriano-Remensis offers a rare visual example of the cultural encounter between the "old" and "new" worlds as European practices mingled with indigenous traditions to produce an expression unique to its time and place. It is thus a key document for understanding not only ancient Mexico and New Spain but also the processes of cultural persistence and accommodation that shaped them both"--Publisher's description
Print Book,English, 1995
First editionView all formats and editions
University of Texas Press, Austin, 1995
Facsimile (reproduction) manuscripts
xiv, 365 pages : illustrations, charts, facsimiles (chiefly color), maps ; 33 cm
9780292769014, 0292769016
29600936
Foreword / Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
pt. I. Codex Telleriano-Remensis Facsimile: Manuscrit Mexicain 385 Bibliotheque Nationale of Paris
pt. II. Codex Telleriano-Remensis: Ritual, Divination, and History in a Pictorial Aztec Manuscript. Ch. 1. Introduction: Tradition and Transformation. Ch. 2. The Manuscript: History, Form, and Features. Ch. 3. Section One. The Annual Ritual Calendar. Ch. 4. Section Two. The Tonalamatl. Ch. 5. Section Three. The Historical Annals. Ch. 6. Final Considerations
pt. III. Appendixes
Appendix 1 Foreword (French)
Appendix 2 Foreword (Spanish)
Appendix 3 Translation of the Annotations of the Veintenas
Appendix 4 Translation of the Annotations of the Trecenas
Appendix 5 Translation of the Annotations of the Historical Annals
Appendix 6 Tables
Pictorial Aztec communucation transcribe into old Spanish; foreword in French, translated into English, or Spanish