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Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus I

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Codex Vindobonensis has 52 pages with size 26.5 by 22 cm. It was composed in a form of harmony with length 13.5 m. Its weight is 2.687 kg. The text is divided into 10 major sections. In the beginning it presents mythological genealogies of gods. It also contains lists of Mixtec rulers and
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Facsimile: Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus 1; Vienna, Austrian National Library, Cod. Vindob. mex. 1, Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt (ADEVA) Graz 1974. Colour facsimile edition of the great Mixtec manuscript of the Austrian National Library. 52 fol. on 65 pp., size: 265 x 220 mm, total length:
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13,5 metres. Introduction (in English): O. Adelhofer, Vienna, 44 pp. (history of the manuscript, bibliography). Screenfold-facsimile and commentary volume encased in box with leather spine.
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The manuscript frequently changed owners and places in which it was housed. As a result, its name was changed 18 times. It was known as
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British Museum: Codex Vienna (facsimile) / Codex Vindobonensis (facsimile) / Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus 1 (facsimile)
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in 1519. The later story of the codex is not well known, but it traveled to Portugal, Rome, Weimar, and finally Vienna.
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Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus 1. Faksimileausgabe der Mexikanischen Bilderhandschrift der Nationalbibliothek in Wien
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writing. It is a ritual-calendrical and genealogical document dated to the 14th century.
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Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, State University of New York at Albany (1978).
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It is not certain where the codex was discovered. It was likely discovered in
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High Definition scan of the codex at the Austrian National Library
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For other manuscripts labelled "Codex Vindobonensis", see
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Benson, Dumbarton Oaks, 16:Pre-Columbian piece of Mixtec writing 214: 147:Walter Lehmann and Ottokar Smital, 13: 135: 14: 1214: 987:Lienzo de Coixtlahuaca I & II 232:: Ometēcuthli and Omecihuātl (or 159: 247: 1162:Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus I 1042:Oztoticpac Lands Map of Texcoco 992:Lienzo de Santa María Nativitas 81:, together with the manuscript 38:Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus I 1002:Lienzo de Zacatepec I & II 107:It is currently housed at the 1: 173:Mesoamerican writing systems 7: 1137:Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca 997:Lienzo de Santiago Ihuitlan 118: 59: 10: 1219: 1097:Codex Santa Maria Asunción 877:Boban Aztec Calendar Wheel 94:Codex Constantinopolitanus 68: 18: 1112:Codex Telleriano-Remensis 902:Mapas de Cuauhtinchan 1-4 872:Codices Becker I & II 834: 806: 730: 664: 298: 256: 245: 222: 109:Austrian National Library 1198:14th-century manuscripts 1052:Plano en papel de maguey 862:Codices Azoyú I & II 847:Aubin Manuscript no. 20 48:is an accordion-folded 982:Lienzo Antonio de León 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Codex Vindobonensis

pre-Columbian
Mixtec
Veracruz
Sevilla
Codex Zouche-Nuttall
Charles V
Austrian National Library
Vienna
Mixtec writing
Mixtec Group
High Definition scan of the codex at the Austrian National Library
Elizabeth P. Benson, Dumbarton Oaks, Mesoamerican writing systems, Washington 1973
British Museum: Codex Vienna (facsimile) / Codex Vindobonensis (facsimile) / Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus 1 (facsimile)
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Aztec mythology
Ōmeteōtl
Tōnacātēcuhtli
Tōnacācihuātl

Creator gods
Huītzilōpōchtli
Quetzalcoatl
Tezcatlipoca
Xipe Totec
Camaxtle
Deities

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