Codex Sierra Texupan, Codice Sierra Fragmento de una Nomina de Gastos del Pueblo de Santa Catarina Texupan

Codex Sierra Texupan, Codice Sierra Fragmento de una Nomina de Gastos del Pueblo de Santa Catarina Texupan

Nicolas Leon

 Poulat Litografio; Museo National, 1906


Folio, 33.5 x 24 cm.  Loose, as issued, in publisher's green cloth chemise in slip case. Very good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Rare color facsimile. "The Codex Sierra Texupan is a sixty-two-page libro de cuentas, or book of community accounts, that combines Nahuatl-language writing with a parallel pictorial component. Indigenous writers and artists in the Mixteca Alta region of the modern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, compiled the book over a fifteen-year period from 1550 to 1564." (Kevin Terraciano, Parallel Nahuatl and Pictorial Texts in the Mixtec Codex Sierra Texupan, Ethnohistory, 2015, Volume 62, Number 3: 497-524).

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