Nuevo comentario al Códice Vaticano B (Vat. Lat. 3773) / coordinación Katarzyna Mikulska ; presentación Enrique Graue Wiechers, Marcin Pałys ; [writers of commentary] Alejandro de Ávila B., Juan José Batalla Rosado, David Buti, Laura Cartechini, Danièle Dehouve, Ana Díaz, Davide Domenici, Élodie Dupey García, Jamie E. Forde, Canek Estrada Peña, Chiara Grazia, Dominika Kossowska-Janik, Patricia Mariano Enríquez, Katarzyna Mikulska, Constanza Miliani, Michel R. Oudijk, Daniel Prusaczyk, Aldo Romani, Miguel Ángel Ruz Barrio, Antonio Sgamellotti, Loïc Vauzelle, Saeko Yanagisawa.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mikulska, Katarzyna, editor, contributor.

Graue Wiechers, Enrique, writer of introduction.

Pałys, Marcin, writer of introduction.

Ávila Blomberg, Alejandro de, contributor.

Batalla Rosado, Juan José, contributor.

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, issuing body.

Uniwersytet Warszawski, issuing body.

Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, issuing body.

Series:

Serie Amoxtli ; 2.

Codices e Vaticanis selecti. Series minor ; v. 20.

Serie Amoxtli / Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas ; 2

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Codex Vaticanus Lat. 3773.

Manuscripts, Nahuatl--Facsimiles.

Manuscripts, Nahuatl.

Nahuatl language--Texts.

Nahuatl language.

Aztec calendar.

Nahuatl language--Writing.

Manuscripts, Nahuatl--Vatican City--Facsimiles.

Manuscripts, Mexican--Vatican City--Facsimiles.

Manuscripts, Mexican.

Aztecs--Religion.

Aztecs.

Picture-writing--Mexico.

Picture-writing.

Mexico.

Vatican City.

Genre:

Facsimiles.

Texts.

Physical Description:

592 pages, 54 unnumbered pages of plates (3 folded) : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 28 cm + 1 container (1 Códice Vaticano B (Vat. Lat. 3773) (frente) (láminas 1-48) + 1 traslúcido descriptivo del facsímil (vuelta) (láminas 49-96)).

Edition:

Primera edición.

Other Title:

Cover title on brown case: Códice Vaticano B (Vat. Lat. 3773)

Spine title on Códice Vaticano B facsimile & traslúcido descriptivo del facsímil container: Facsimal Códice Vaticano B (Vat. Lat. 3773)

Place of Publication:

Ciudad de México : Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México ; Varsovia, Polonia : Universidad de Varsovia ; Ciudad del Vaticano : Biblioteca Apostólica Vaticana, 2020.

Contents:

Commentary volume: Presentación / Enrique Graue Wiechers

Presentación / Marcin Pałys

Introducción / Katarzyna Mikulska

Agradecimientos / Katarzyna Mikulska

Estudio material del Códice Vaticano B: composición, estructura y recursos técnicos de manufactura / Ana Díaz, Katarzyna Mikulska

Los materiales pictóricos del Códice Vaticano B / Davide Domenici, Élodie Dupey García, David Buti, Chiara Grazia, Aldo Romani, Laura Cartechini, Antonio Sgamellotti, Costanza Miliani

Los tlacuiloque del Códice Vaticano B y los pasos para pintar el códice / Katarzyna Mikulska

Los palimpsestos del Códice Vaticano B / Élodie Dupey García, Jamie E. Forde, Saeko Yanagisawa

El Calendario de los indios de Guatemala 1722 kiché y las "escenas mánticas" de la gran tabla del tonalpohualli en los códices Vaticano B, Borgia y Cospi / Canek Estrada Peña, Katarzyna Mikulska, Daniel Prusaczyk, Dominika Kossowska-Janik

Nuevas fuentes para la interpretación del Códice Vaticano B / Michel R. Oudijk

Los almanaques corpóreos en el Códice Vaticano B / Miguel Ángel Ruz Barrio, Patricia Mariano Enríquez

A la luz de los dioses y sus ornamentos: nuevas perspectivas sobre el almanaque agrícola de los seis tlalloque en el Códice Vaticano B (láms. 43-48) / Loïc Vauzelle

Tres componentes de codificación en el sistema de comunicación gráfica de los códices Vaticano B y Borgia / Katarzyna Mikulska

La representación iconográfica de la sangre en el Códice Vaticano B / Juan José Batalla Rosado

Tres flores en los códices Vaticano B y Borgia / Danièle Dehouve, Alejandro de Ávila B.

La representación de animales en el Códice Vaticano B: su identificación y sus valores mánticos / Miguel Ángel Ruz Barrio

Los dioses y sus nombres: el caso de los dioses solares / Katarzyna Mikulska.

Notes:

Title from commentary volume.

"Codex Vaticanus B, (The Vatican, Bibl. Vat., Vat. Lat. 3773) also known as Codex Vaticanus 3773, Codice Vaticano Rituale, and Códice Fábrega, is a pre-Columbian Middle American pictorial manuscript, probably from the Puebla part of the Mixtec region, with a ritual and calendrical content. It is a member of the Borgia Group of manuscripts. It is currently housed at the Vatican Library. Codex Vaticanus B is a screenfold book made from ten segments of deerskin joined together.... The deerskin has been covered by a bright white burnished gesso. Red lines are used to frame and divide parts of compositions, black outlines are used to demarcate figures, and finally a limited set of approximately six colours has been used to colour it. The book keeps its original covers, two wooden tables that have been pasted to the extremes of the deerskin strip. Originally, this binding was covered with precious stones: today, only a single turquoise tile remains. The history of this manuscript prior to 1596, the date where it appears in a Vatican Catalog where it was assigned the number 3773, is currently unknown. Its original catalog entry reads like this: "Religion of the Indians in drawings, images and hieroglyphs, on papers with boards. The paper has a width of 7 fingers and extends to 32 palms, with pictures in both sides. It has been folded as a screenfold and acquired the form of a book." It has been speculated that the book arrived to the Vatican alongside Codex Vaticanus 3738."--Wikipedia entry for Codex Vaticanus B (viewed February 24, 2022).

"Codex Vaticanus B is one of the Borgia Group of screen fold, Mesoamerican codices. Created in the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries in the Puebla-Tlaxcala region of Mexico, it is a handbook for indigenous religious leaders. Like other codices in this group, Codex Vaticanus B is a tonal containing calendars and almanacs used by day keepers to guide prognostications, celebrations, and other religious events. It utilizes pictographs, or tlacuilolli, to convey information through iconography, depictions of deities and objects containing meaning to the reader. There is no alphabetic text in this manuscript."-- Facsimile Finder website (viewed April 11, 2022)

How Codex Vaticanus B traveled to Europe is unknown. The examination of early publications reveals that it has been in the Vatican collection since the end of the sixteen century. In 1589 it is mentioned in a work written by Vatican physician Michele Mercati [in his work on the obelisks of Rome]. An inventory of the year 1596 titles the codex "Indorum Cultus, Delineamenta et Effigies" revealing that the religious content of the codex was known and identified. During the seventeenth century, a rendering of page 96 depicting the body of a deer-man featuring day signs and divinatory attributes was published in a book on Egyptian hieroglyphics by Athanius Kircher. José Lino Fábrega, a former priest, published the first commentary of the codex in 1902 after locating the book in the Vatican Library at the end of the eighteenth century. [Baron von Humboldt reproduced other pages, and the first complete edition was that of Lord Kinsborough. In 1896, Joseph Florimond, duke of Loubat prepared another facsimile, and years later financed a commentary by Eduard Seler, published in 1902 in London]. Codex Vaticanus B exhibits the recognizable screen fold, or tira, the typical format of Mesoamerican codices. Ten strips of deerskin glued together form the support structure of this work. Covering the skins is a thin coating of a lime-based stucco-like material to fashion a paintable surface. When closed, it measures nearly fifteen by close to thirteen cms. When unfolded, it measures 724 cms."--Facsimile Finder website (viewed April 11, 2022).

"Esta obra el resultado de un esfuerzo conjunto entre la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México y la Universidad de Varsovia, que han elegido como objeto de su interés el estudio científico renovado de un códice mesoamericano, el códice conocido como Vaticano B. (Vat. Lat. 3773) Producto de este esfuerzo es el trabajo interdisciplinario de un grupo de investigadores de Polonia, México, España, Italia, Francia, Estados Unidos, Guatemala y Japón, el cual fue posible gracias al favor de la Biblioteca Apostólica Vaticana, la que permitió la reproducción del original que resguarda. [translation] This masterpiece is the result of the joint venture effort among the Autonomous National University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) and the University of Warsow [sic] (Uniwersytet Warzauski) that as matter of interest have chosen to develop a scientific study on a Mesoamerican codex, the codex entitled Vatican B (Vat. Lat. 3737 [that is, Vat. Lat 3773]). This task results in an interdisciplinary work of a group of researchers from Poland, Mexico, Spain, Italy, The United States, Guatemala and Japan, thanks to which it was possible to the Vatican Apostolic Library who allowed the reproduction of the authentic codex under its guard."--Amoxcalli website https://amoxcalli.hypotheses.org/34271 (viewed April 11, 2022).

Issued in brown case measuring 30 x 41 x 6 cm.

Components of works in case: 592 page commentary "Nuevo Comentario al Códice Vaticano B (Vat. Lat. 3773") / prepared by the international team of Katarzyna Mikulska, and scientists from Poland, Mexico, Spain, Italy, France, the United States, Guatemala, and Japan -- A reproduction of the pre-Columbian manuscript, Codex Vaticanus B (Vat. Lat. 3773) -- Mapping of the manuscript with all the drawings with captions in the form of two transparent overlays (also known as "Códice Traslúcido Explicativo" or "Ghost") / by Katarzyna Mikulska.

Limited to 500 copies.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 555-588).

Contains:

Container of: Codex Vaticanus Lat. 3773.

ISBN:

9786073029810

6073029810

9788365911391

8365911396

9788821010316

8821010317

OCLC:

1299253147