Codex Magliabechiano

The Codex Magliabechiano is a pictorial Aztec codex created during the mid-16th century, in the early Spanish colonial period. It is representative of a set of codices known collectively as the ''Magliabechiano Group (others in the group include the Codex Tudela and the Codex Ixtlilxochitl).'' The Codex Magliabechiano is based on an earlier unknown codex, which is assumed to have been the prototype for the Magliabechiano Group. It is named after Antonio Magliabechi, a 17th-century Italian manuscript collector, and is held in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence, Italy.

It was created on European paper, with drawings and Spanish language text on both sides of each page. The Codex Magliabechiano is primarily a religious document. Various deities, indigenous religious rites, costumes, and cosmological beliefs are depicted. Its 92 pages are almost a glossary of cosmological and religious elements. The 52-year cycle is depicted, as well as the 20 day-names of the '' tonalpohualli,'' and the 18 monthly feasts.

Images

File:Codex Magliabechiano 11R.jpg, The first four day-symbols of the '' tonalpohualli'': Flint, Rain, Flower, Crocodile. (Page 11, reverse) (the Rain day-symbol resembles symbol of Tlaloc)
File:Codex Magliabechiano folio 11v.jpg, Depicts the Aztec calendrical signs for the days 5 Wind, 6 House, 7 Lizard and 8 Snake. (Folio 11v)
File:Codex Magliabechiano folio 12r.jpg, Calendrical signs for the days 9 Death, 10 Deer, 11 Rabbit and 12 Water. (Folio 12r)
File:Codex Magliabechiano folio 13r.jpg, Calendrical signs for the days 4 Jaguar, 5 Eagle, 6 Vulture and 7 Quake. (Folio 13r)
File:Codex Magliabechiano (141).jpg, page 141 (folio 70r)
File:Codex Magliabechiano (141 cropped).jpg, page 141 (folio 70r)
File:Magliabechiano funeral.jpg
File:Magliabchanopage 73r.jpg, A depiction of cannibalism in Aztec culture. (Folio 73r)
File:Magliabechiano medicine.jpg
File:Magliabechiano tititl.jpg, Possibly depicting Tititl festival
File:Chicomecoatl 2.jpg, Chicomecoatl
File:Codex Magliabechiano ritual sacrificial combat.jpg
File:Jaguar warrior.jpg, Victim of the ritual sacrificial combat named ''Sacrificio Gladiatorio'' in spanish and ''Tlahuahuanaliztli'' o ''tlauauaniliztli'' in nahuatl, as portrayed in the folio 30r
File:Toltecatl.jpg, Toltecatl
File:Magliabechiano fish.jpg, Could be Manta ornament
File:Quetzalcoatl magliabechiano.jpg, Could be Quetzalcoatl
File:Techalotl.JPG, Could be Techalotl
File:Tzitzim.gif, Could be Tzitzimitl
File:Yauhtecatl.jpg, Yauhtecatl

SVG renderings

Image:Calli (house).svg, Calli (house)
Image:Tochtli.svg, Tochtli (rabbit)
Image:Xochitl.svg, Xochitl (flower)
Image:Mazatl.svg, Mazatl (deer)

Icons

Image:Acatl.jpg, Acatl (reed)
Image:Cipactli.jpg, Cipactli (crocodile)
Image:Coatl.jpg, Coatl (serpent)
Image:Cozcacuauhtli.jpg, Cozcacuauhtli (vulture)

Image:Cuauhtli.jpg, Cuauhtli (eagle)
Image:Cuetzpalin.jpg, Cuetzpalin (lizard)
Image:Ehecatl2.jpg, Ehecatl
Image:Itzcuintli.jpg, Itzcuintli (dog)

Image:Malinalli.jpg, Malinalli (grass)
Image:Miquiztli.jpg, Miquiztli (death)
Image:Ocelotl.jpg, Ocelotl (ocelot)
Image:Olin.jpg, Olin (movement)

Image:Ozomatli.jpg, Ozomatli (monkey)
Image:Quiahuitl.jpg, Quiahuitl (rain)
Image:Tecpatl.jpg, Tecpatl (flint)

References

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Further reading

* Carrasco, David. (2001). ''The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures: The Civilizations of Mexico and Central America.'' Oxford. .
* Facsimile: Codex Magliabechiano, Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Middle of the 16th century; Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt (ADEVA) Graz 1970. Colour facsimile edition of the manuscript in possession of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze. 186 pp., size: 215 x 155 mm. Encased in box with leather spine. Introduction (in German), summaries (in English and Spanish): F. Anders, Vienna, 78 pp., 1 plate; CODICES SELECTI, Vol. XXIII

External links

''Complete color facsimiles'' of the hand-painted manuscript in the National Central Library in Florence
Codex Magliabechiano
(Graz, 1970)

(Rome, 1904)

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