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Codex Mexicanus
The
Codex
Mexicanus
is an early
colonial Mexican
pictorial
manuscript
.
The Codex
can be
divided
into several sections:
The
saints
, the
European
calendar
and
zodiac
.
The
Aztec calendar
.
Accounts in the
Aztec
pictographic writing
system
.
A
family tree
of the
rulers of Mexico
.
The
history
of the
Mexica
from their
departure
from
Aztlan
.
Colonial history.
Two
Christian
scenes: the
Temptation of Christ
and the
Adoration
.
A
tonalamatl
. This last
section
is
incomplete
.
It is
currently
held in the
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
.