Codex Sierra Texupan, Codice Sierra Fragmento de una Nomina de Gastos del Pueblo de Santa Catarina Texupan.

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Codex Sierra Texupan, Codice Sierra Fragmento de una Nomina de Gastos del Pueblo de Santa Catarina Texupan. Mexico: Poulat Litografio, 1906. Folio, edited by Nicolas Leon Calderon (1859-1929) of the Museo Michoacano in Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico; facsimile in color of the Codex Sierra Texupan; unbound leaves in publisher's cloth chemise and slipcase, 12 3/4 x 8 3/4 in.
"The Codex Sierra Texupan is a sixty-two-page libro de cuentas, or book of community accounts, that combines Nahuatl-language writing with a parallel pictorial component. Indigenous writers and artists in the Mixteca Alta region of the modern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, compiled the book over a fifteen-year period from 1550 to 1564." (Kevin Terraciano, Parallel Nahuatl and Pictorial Texts in the Mixtec Codex Sierra Texupan, Ethnohistory, 2015, Volume 62, Number 3: 497-524).
Estimate $500-700


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