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The search for the Codex Cardona / Arnold J. Bauer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bauer, Arnold J.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Codex Cardona.
- Nahuas--Mexico--History--16th century.
- Nahuas.
- Nahuas--Mexico--Manuscripts.
- Manuscripts, Mexican.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (198 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Codex Cardona is a Mexican "painted book" which may date from the 16th century and has been assessed inconclusively by such places as Sotheby's, the Getty, and Stanford University. This book describes the author's quest to determine the ori
- Contents:
- The Crocker lab
- A world of painted books
- Early doubts
- Sotheby's of London
- The Getty
- Sloan ranger
- Nights in the gardens of Coyoacan
- A mysterious affidavit
- Seville
- Christie's of New York
- El Palacio del Marques
- Libreria Zocalo
- An internet posting
- The architect's studio
- Pasaje de las Flores
- The high end
- Ibiza
- A Madrid anticuario.
- Notes:
- "On the trail of a sixteenth-century Mexican treasure."
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-175) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613036155
- 9781283036153
- 1283036150
- 9780822391579
- 0822391570
- OCLC:
- 504567837
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