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The search for the Codex Cardona / Arnold J. Bauer.

e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection 2009 Available online

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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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