Códices de México / Miguel León-Portilla, Alfredo López Austin, Xavier Noguez Ramírez, Baltazar Brito Guadarrama.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

León Portilla, Miguel, author.

López Austin, Alfredo, author.

Noguez, Xavier, author.

Brito Guadarrama, Baltazar, author.

Contributor:

Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (Mexico), issuing body.

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Mexico (Mexico : State). Secretaría de Cultura y Turismo, issuing body.

Series:

Museos y galerías

Museos y galerias

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Manuscripts, Mexican (Pre-Columbian).

Indians of Mexico--Antiquities.

Indians of Mexico.

Mexico--History--To 1519.

Mexico.

History.

Physical Description:

243 pages : illustrations, chiefly color ; 30 cm.

Edition:

Primera coedición.

Place of Publication:

Ciudad de México : Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia ; Toluca de Lerdo : Secretaría de Cultura y Turismo del Gobierno del Estado de México, julio 2021.

Language Note:

In Spanish.

Summary:

Códices de México, whose impeccable manufacture led it to obtain this important recognition from the Mexican publishing industry, has texts by prominent historians Miguel León-Portilla and Alfredo López Austin, as well as careful images of 44 ancient documents registered in the Program UNESCO Memory of the World. The introduction to the book, by master Miguel León-Portilla, explains the different topics addressed by the codices, as well as the formats in which they were made. Likewise, it abounds in news and the occasional curiosity regarding several of these documents. Meanwhile, the recently deceased, Alfredo López Austin, in his text "Time", masterfully outlines the conception of Mesoamerican time and its record in pre-Hispanic books. While Xavier Noguez Ramírez in his essay sheds light on the concept of power and its representation in this type of manuscripts. Finally, the general coordinator of the volume, Baltazar Brito Guadarrama, in the text "The Five Suns", gives an overview of the most outstanding researchers in the study of Mesoamerican codices, whose personalities he delimits into five great epochs.

Contents:

Pórtico

Tiempo

Poder

Los cinco soles.

Notes:

Contains fold out illustrations.

"Esta obra se editó con motivo de la exposición "Códices de México, memorias y saberes", presentada en 2014 para celebrar el 75° aniversario del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia y los 50 años del Museo Nacional de Antropología." -- reverse title page.

Includes bibliographical references.

Prize winning book for the Premio CANIEM al Arte Editorial 2021

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9786075395296

6075395296

9786074903454

607490345X

OCLC:

1293455909