Codex Telleriano-Remensis

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Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán
as depicted in Codex Telleriano Remensis.

The Codex Telleriano-Remensis, produced in sixteenth century

Charles-Maurice Le Tellier, archbishop of Reims, who had possession of the manuscript in the late 17th century.[1]

The Codex is held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.

Contents

The Codex Telleriano-Remensis is divided into three sections. The first section, spanning the first seven pages, describes the 365-day solar calendar, called the

Colonial Mexico
.

Earthquakes

The codex contains twelve references to a series of earthquakes that occurred between 1460 and 1542.

Mesoamerican cosmology.[2]

Reproductions

In 1995, a reproduction of the Codex Telleriano-Remensis made from films was published by the

Tecziztecatl on the recto and Nahui Ehecatl on the verso; and page 19, with Tamoanchan on the recto and Xolotl on the verso.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Quiñones Keber (1995): p. 155.
  2. ^ a b c d Magazine, Smithsonian; Davis-Marks, Isis. "Aztec Pictograms Are the First Written Records of Earthquakes in the Americas". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2023-01-20.
  3. ^ Evans (1997): p. 420.

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