Codex Mendoza, the Mexican Manuscript Known as the Collection of Mendoza and Preserved in the Bodleian Library Oxford.

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Codex Mendoza, the Mexican Manuscript Known as the Collection of Mendoza and Preserved in the Bodleian Library Oxford. London: Waterlow & Sons Ltd., 1938. Three folio volumes, edited and translated by James Cooper Clark, with plates, including a portrait, and a facsimile of the manuscript, each bound in uniform full parchment, lettered in gold, 13 3/4 x 9 1/4 in. (3)
The Codex Mendoza is an Aztec manuscript created in 1535, fourteen years after the Spanish conquest of Mexico. It was created for Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain, and contains a history of the Aztec rulers and their conquests, a list of the tribute paid by the conquered, and a description of daily Aztec life, in traditional Aztec pictograms with Spanish explanations and commentary. It never made it to Charles V. The ship conveying the Codex to Europe was taken by privateers and the book was taken to France. It eventually found its way into the hands of the English explorers Hakluyt and Purchase, and finally arrived at the Bodleian through Selden.
Estimate $2,000-2,500


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