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Il manoscritto messicano Borgiano : del Museo etnografico della S. Congregazione di propaganda fide / riprodotto in fotocromografia a spese di s. e. il duca di Loubat a cura della Biblioteca Vaticanna.
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- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Codex Borgianus.
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Manuscripts, Mexican--Facsimiles.
- Manuscripts, Mexican.
- Indians of Mexico--Languages--Writing.
- Indians of Mexico.
- Genre:
- Facsimiles.
- Physical Description:
- Text ("Prefazione") 12 pages : facsimile of manuscript in colors, folded into 39 l. (p. 1-76) ; 26 x 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Roma : Danesi, 1898.
- Notes:
- The original, a Nahua ritual manuscript, consists of 14 pieces of Mexican deer skin of varying length, glued together to form a continuous strip, 10 m. x 27 m., covered with writing on both sides; it is folded into 39 leaves, one side of the first and last being attached to covers, forming a volume 27 x 27 cm. The manuscript is reproduced on a strip of thick paper 988 x 26 cm., similarly folded, the 39 leaves being paged 1-76. The descriptive preface, bound in boards, and the facsimiles are enclosed in a wood case, half bound, lettered Codice messicano Borgiano.
- OCLC:
- 1601413
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