Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus I

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Author: Adelhofer, Otto (editor) Year: 1974 Publisher: Akademische Druck - u. Verlagsanstalt Place: Graz Description: 2 volumes. Text volume. 37 pages with facsimiles, figures, tables, four plates (2 in color and one foldout pictorial) and bibliography. Oblong quarto (10" x 12") text bound in original publisher's wrappers. Codex true-color facsimile edition of the hand painted manuscript in possession of the Austrian National Library, Vienna. 52 folded pages folded continuously in PreColumbian screen-fold format. The facsimile and commentary volumes are together presented in a boxed edition with quarter leather spine in gold lettering to spine and brown lettering to cover. Volume 5 of the series Codices Selecti. First edition in this series. Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus I , counted as the most beautiful and detailed of the hand painted Mixtec books this treasure of ancient Mexico has been in the Vienna National Library (previously the Imperial Library) since 1677. It is a prehispanic Mesoamerican screen-fold manuscript painted on deer-hide, is one of the few pictorial documents to have survived the pre-Conquest period. Although its exact provenience is unknown, originated in the Mixteca, an area of southern Mexico. Other screen-fold manuscripts from the Mixteca survive that are also painted in the "native style," that is, without any trace of European iconographic or stylistic influence even if they were executed soon after the conquest. Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus I , is

• Binding: Hardcover

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