The Codex Borgia: A Full-Color Restoration of the Ancient Mexican Manuscript Contributor(s): Díaz, Gisele (Author), Rodgers, Alan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0486275698 ISBN-13: 9780486275697 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1993 Annotation: First publication of remarkable repainting of outstanding Mexican codex -- priceless original is in Vatican Library -- thought to have originated in the Cholula area, ca. AD 1400. 76 large full-color plates show an astounding array of gods, kings, warriors, mythical creatures, and abstract designs. A work of rare power and beauty. Introduction. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Art | History - Prehistoric & Primitive - History | Native American - Art | Study & Teaching |
Dewey: 299.792 |
LCCN: 93006714 |
Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 8.2" W x 10.8" (1.25 lbs) 112 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - Prehistoric - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Considered by many scholars the finest extant Mexican codex and one of the most important original sources for the study of pre-Columbian religion, the Codex Borgia is a work of profound beauty, filled with strange and evocative images related to calendrical, cosmological, ritual, and divinatory matters. Generally similar to such Mixtec manuscripts as the Codex Nuttall, the Codex Borgia is thought to have its origin (ca. A.D. 1400) in the southern central highlands of Mexico, perhaps in Puebla or Oaxaca. It is most probably a religious document that once belonged to a temple or sacred shrine. |