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Codice nahua : manuscript.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Codex 2134
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Perez Martinez, Diana A., artist.
- Language:
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Women artists--Mexico.
- Women artists.
- Xalitla (Mexico)--Pictorial works.
- Xalitla (Mexico).
- Xalitla (Mexico)--Social life and customs.
- Genre:
- pen and ink drawings.
- Accordion fold books.
- Manuscripts, Mexican -- 21st century.
- Manuscripts, Spanish -- 21st century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Purchased by Ben Koenig of The Country Bookshop in Mexico City, 11 February 2017.
- Sold by The Country Bookshop (Plainfield, Vermont) to Caroline F. Schimmel, 2017.
- Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2021 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (16 leaves) : paper ; 18 x 18 cm
- Production:
- Xalitla, Mexico, 2016?
- Biography/History:
- Artist of Xalitla, Guerrero, Mexico.
- Summary:
- An accordion fold book of handmade paper containing 14 traditional scenes of agricultural work and celebration, drawn in ink in a folk art style, described by the artist as temas tradicionales and grecas prehispanicas (f. 15).
- Contents:
- 1. La siembra del maiz
- 2. El Je[?]uite (Quitar la yerba)
- 3. La suelta (Dejar la m[?]pa lista)
- 4. La cosecha del maiz
- 5. La pisca (Despegar la mazorca)
- 6. Acarreo de la mazorca
- 7. Dia de la Cruz (Pidiendo la lluvia)
- 8. Promesa de velas
- 9. Danza (Las pastoras)
- 10. La piñata
- 11. La boda
- 12. Nacimiento
- 13. Castillo de luces pirotecnicos
- 14. Corrida de toros (Jaripeo).
- Cited in:
- Described in OK, I’ll do it myself: narratives of intrepid women in the American wilderness: selections from the Caroline F. Schimmel Collection, New York (exhibit catalog, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Kislak Center, 2018), p. 18 (no. 10).
- Cited as:
- Diana A. Perez Martinez, Codice Nahua (Ms. Codex 2134). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.
- OCLC:
- 1392401787
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