Antiquities of Mexico
OCLC 5852094 | | |
Antiquities of Mexico is a compilation of facsimile reproductions of
pre-Columbian cultures, there are also documents relevant to studies of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire
. Antiquities of Mexico was produced to make copies of rare manuscripts in European collections available for study by scholars.
The work consists of nine volumes, each published in a large
elephant folio
format. It was originally planned as ten, but Lord Kingsborough died before the full work could be completed.
Kingsborough commissioned the Italian landscape painter
Magna Græcia on behalf of the English architect William Wilkins
. Aglio spent the better part of six years travelling to the libraries and museums of Europe to examine and draw all of the "Ancient Mexican" documents, artefacts and manuscripts known in European collections of the time.
Many of the facsimiles of codices are hand-colored.
References
- OCLC 5852094.
- Marhenke, Randa (2003). "The Ancient Maya Codices". Maya Hieroglyphic Writing. Mesoweb. from the original on 18 June 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-17.
- Tenorio-Trillo, Mauricio (1996). Mexico at the World's Fairs: Crafting a Modern Nation (e-Book Scholarship editions). The New Historicism series, No. 35. Berkeley: OCLC 44961052.
- Wason, Charles William (1831). "Art. VIII.— Antiquities of Mexico; comprising Fac-similes of Ancient Mexican Paintings and Hieroglyphics, preserved in the Royal Libraries of Paris, Berlin and Dresden; in the Imperial Library of Vienna; in the Vatican Library; in the Borgian Museum at Rome; in the Library of the Institute at Bologna; and in the Bodleian Library at Oxford: together with the Monuments of New Spain, by M. Dupaix, with their respective Scales of Measurement, and accompanying Descriptions. The whole illustrated by many valuable inedited Manuscripts. By Augustus Aglio". The Monthly Review. From January to April inclusive, vol. 1. New and improved series. London: G. Henderson. pp. 253–274. OCLC 64054239.
- OCLC 50928664.