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The Codex Nuttall
Zelia Nuttall
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The Codex Nuttall
Zelia Nuttall
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The only value-priced, full-color edition of the pre-Columbian Mexican (Mixtec) book. Features 88 color plates of kings, gods, heroes, temples, sacrifices, and more. New introduction.
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Arte generalA Note to the Reader
ON PAGE SEQUENCE AND EMENDATIONS
The painted pages of the Codex Nuttall are here reproduced in numerically reverse order to make the reading of them as close to that of the original screenfold as possible (without the necessity of turning the book around halfway through). The codex is read from right to left in a boustrophedon pattern. The reader is therefore asked to turn to codex page 1 (at the end of this bound book) and to read the color pages straight through from right to left and from back to front.
In the original codex, there is a blank page on the obverse that precedes page 1. Page 41 completes the painted obverse and is followed by four unpainted pages prepared for painting. On the second of these four blank pages are the following Aztec year-bearer names (in incorrect order) written in European script:
- Ce Acatl
- Ome tochtli
- Yei tecpatl
- Navi calli
The page with these names is reproduced here immediately after thi...