The Codex Mexicanus is an early colonial Mexican

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. The Codex can be divided into several sections: #The saints, the European calendar and

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. #The Aztec calendar. #Accounts in the Aztec

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writing system. #A

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of the rulers of Mexico. #The history of the Mexica from their departure from Aztlan. #Colonial history. #Two

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scenes: the

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and the

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. #A

tonalamatl The ''tonalamatl'' is a divinatory almanac used in central Mexico in the decades, and perhaps centuries, leading up to the Spanish conquest. The word itself is Nahuatl in origin, meaning "pages of days". The ''tonalamatl'' was structured aroun ...

. This last section is incomplete. It is currently held in the

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High Definition scans of the codex at the French National Library

Codices The codex (plural codices ) was the historical ancestor of the modern book. Instead of being composed of sheets of paper, it used sheets of vellum, papyrus, or other materials. The term ''codex'' is often used for ancient manuscript books, ...

Mesoamerican pictorial manuscripts A 16th century in the Aztec civilization 16th century in Mexico 16th century in New Spain Pictograms Astrological texts Mexicanus Bibliothèque nationale de France collections {{mesoamerica-stub

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