Codex Mexicanus


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