The Mesoamerican codex re-entangled : production, use and re-use of precolonial documents / Ludo Snijders.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Snijders, Ludo, author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Archaeological studies Leiden University ; 31.

Archaeological studies Leiden University ; 31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Codex Selden.

Manuscripts, Mexican (Pre-Columbian).

Central America--Antiquities.

Central America.

Antiquities.

Physical Description:

x, 215 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Leiden University Press, [2016]

Summary:

This innovative work attempts to piece together the cultural biography of Mesoamerica's precolonial codices. Today less than twenty extant manuscripts are all that remains of the Mesoamerican book-making tradition. These pictographic and hieroglyphic texts have often been studied for their content, but in doing so their nature as physical objects faded into the background. By tracing the paths these books have followed over the past five hundred years, this study acquaints the reader with their production, use and re-use, destruction, rediscovery and reinvention. Even today, in fact, these books continue to add new chapters to their biography. That is, thanks to the most cutting-edge technology currently available, it has now been possible to uncover a completely new text from inside one of these precious and fragile manuscripts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-183).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9789087282639

908728263X

OCLC:

959365253

Publisher Number:

99973541037