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The Codex Magliabechiano is a pictorial
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,
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,
Codex Magliabechiano
(Graz, 1970)
(Rome, 1904) {{Authority control Magliabechiano
The Codex Magliabechiano is a pictorial Aztec codex
Aztec codices ( , sing. ''codex'') are Mesoamerican Codices, Mesoamerican manuscripts made by the pre-Columbian Aztecs, Aztec, and their Nahuatl-speaking descendants during the New Spain, colonial period in Mexico. Most of their content is ...
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
The Codex Tudela is a 16th-century pictorial Aztec codex. It is based on the same prototype as the Codex Magliabechiano, the Codex Ixtlilxochitl, and other documents of the Magliabechiano Group.
Little is known about the codex's history. The Spa ...
and the Codex Ixtlilxochitl
''Codex Ixtlilxochitl'' (Nahuatl for "black-faced flower") is a pictorial Aztec codex, Aztec Codex created between 1580 and 1584, during the Spanish colonial era in New Spain, Mexico. It depicts past ceremonies and holidays observed at the Grea ...
).'' 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
Antonio di Marco Magliabechi (or Magliabecchi; 29 October 1633 - 4 July 1714) was an Italian librarian, scholar and bibliophile.
Biography
He was born at Florence, the son of a burgher named Marco Magliabechi, and Ginevra Baldorietta. His father ...
, a 17th-century Italian manuscript collector, and is held in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence
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Florence ...
, Italy
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.
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
Toltecatl Tōltēcatl (Nahuatl for "the Toltec
The Toltec culture () was a Pre-Columbian era, pre-Columbian Mesoamerican culture that ruled a state centered in Tula (Mesoamerican site), Tula, Hidalgo (state), Hidalgo, Mexico, during the Epiclassic and th ...
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
Ehecatl
Ehecatl ( , ) is a pre-Columbian deity associated with the wind, who features in Aztec mythology and the mythologies of other cultures from the central Mexico region of Mesoamerica. He is most usually interpreted as the aspect of the Feathered Se ...
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
* *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. XXIIIExternal links
''Complete color facsimiles'' of the hand-paintedmanuscript
A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand or typewritten, as opposed to mechanically printed or reproduced in some indirect or automated way. More recently, the term has ...
in the National Central Library in FlorenceCodex Magliabechiano
(Graz, 1970)
(Rome, 1904) {{Authority control Magliabechiano