Codex Bodley: A Painted Chronicle From The Mixtec Highlands, Mexico - Couverture rigide

Jansen, Maarten; Pérez Jiménez, Gabina Aurora

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1851240950 ISBN 13 : 9781851240951

Editeur : Bodleian Library, 2005

Synopsis

The Codex Bodley has long been recognized as one of the most important Mixtec manuscripts. Painted shortly before the Spanish Conquest of Mexico (1521), in the Mixtec region (state of Oaxaca), it is an excellent example of native Mixtec pictorial historiography in all its complexity. Because of its detailed information on genealogical relationships and dated events, it is a fundamental source for the study of precolonial Mixtec writing and history, from approximately 900 AD till the Spanish conquest (1521).

For the first time, the entire manuscript is reproduced in a handy, single volume format. The commentary, based on many years of research on this manuscript and related documents, both in archives and in the Mixtec region itself, makes it possible to read the figurative paintings as a narrative text. Beginning with the history of the manuscript the author then discusses the main characteristics of Mixtec pictography before turning to the narrative of the manuscript, in a page-by-page explanatory reading of the pictograms and their significance. Highly illustrated, this is an essential text for all readers with an interest in pre-colonial Mexican history, art, and culture.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Maarten Jansen is Professor of Mesoamerican Archeology and History at the University of Leiden. He is also co-author of El Libro de Tezcatlipoca, Senor del Tiempo. Libro explicativo del llamado Codice Fejervary-Mayer.

Gabina Aurora Pérez Jiménez is Research assistant and teacher of Mixtec at the University of Leiden. She has co-authored with Maarten Jansen 'La Dinastia de Anute. Historia, literatura e ideologia de un reino mixteco'.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bodleian Library
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1851240950
• ISBN 13: 9781851240951
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible