Codex Cardona: Antonio de Mendoza, first viceroy of Mexico, directing the foundation of European-style Indian villages; below: Maria Axixina (Achichina)

Published/Created:

ca. 1500-1600

Materials:

amate (wood pulp) paper

Notes:

The Codex describes aspects of the Nahua people to the founding of the capital of Tenochtitlán and events of the Spanish conquest through the 1550s. Includes two maps and 300 illustrations with text in 16th-century paleography. See: The Search for the Co

Topics:

Manuscripts, Mexican (LC)
Mexico -- History -- Spanish colony, 1540-1810 (LC)
Mexico City (Mexico) -- History -- 16th century (LC)
Mexico City (Mexico) -- Pictorial works -- To 1800 (LC)
Nahuas -- Mexico --

Culture:

Mesoamerican: Aztec
Mexican
Nahuatl

Accession Number:

3665-004

Genre:

codices (AAT)
illustrated manuscripts (AAT)

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Archives or Manuscripts
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Paintings & Drawings

Rights:

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Access Restrictions:

Yale Community Only

Source Note:

In Print: Arnold Bauer and the Codex Cardona, introduction by Kathleen Holder, UCDavis Magazine (University of California at Davis), v. 27, no. 2, winter 2010, pp. 14ff.

Yale Collection:

Visual Resources Collection

Digital Collection:

Visual Resources Collection

Original Repository:

Present whereabouts unknown (2010)

Local Record Number:

Portfolio Item ID: 318789

OID:

586948

PID:

digcoll:1912982