Codex Bodley 2858.

México, Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología, 1960

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Text

continuous strip

29 x 624 cm, folded to 29 x 34 cm forming 40 pages, in case 37 x 34 cm

The Library

Facsimile reproduction.
Issued in wooden case with volume of commentary and interpretation.
Title from case.
"A pre-Hispanic manuscript which was being painted in 1521 ... belongs to the group of Mixtec manuscripts of a historical, and particularly of a genealogical nature."
Original of the Codex in Bodleian library Ms. Mex. d.1 (Arch. Bodley A. 75) (2858).
Published 1831 in E.K. Kingsborough's Antiquities of Mexico.
"400 copies."
Supplemented by: "Interpretation of the Codex Bodley 2858 [by] Alfonso Caso. Translated by Ruth Morales and revised by John Paddock" (87 pages : facsimiles, genealogical tables ; 33 cm.) In case with the main work. Bibliography: page 87.
"This edition of the Codex Bodley 2858 is of 400 copies. Color printing of the Codex was done by Foto-Ilustradores, S. A. (Calle de Augusto Rodin 31), under the direction of señor Manuel Bennett. Señor and señora Almela Meliá, of the National University of Mexico and the National Institute of Anthropology and History, bound the Codex. The text was printed on Corsican Antique paper by Editorial Libros de México, S.A. (Avenida Coyoacán No. 1035). The edition of both the Codex and the Commentary was designed and supervised by Dr. Alfonso Caso."--Colophon, from Caso supplement.

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