Mixtec codices, Nahuatl

Mixtec codices, Nahuatl. Mixtec codices Mesoamerican Nahua are pictographic fonts, phonetic and ideographic glyph. Initially they were manufactured from different materials such as wood, ceramic, bone, stone, stucco, fabric, animal skin and paper (amate or maguey) and even a kind of palm called iczotl and only from the sixteenth century began to be produced European paper. These manuscripts have served as mediators best to publicize the most important elements of Mesoamerican culture, for, despite having been produced in regions where different languages ​​were spoken, they used a single scriptural system, called Mixtec-Aztecan . The writings which were developed based fabric, animal skin or parchment paper were rolled or folded like what they called amoxtli Nahuatl, meaning paper glued or seasoned, were called by the Castilian conquerors books, since its use was intended for a function similar to these were in the West. One of the most striking pictorial features of these manuscripts is the presence of thick black lines outline glyphs and images that were parts of which were painted different colors, but uniform (no shadows). Through the major factors known codices of the Mesoamerican tradition, allowing us to be aware of cosmogonic elements, historical group, the events that marked the life of the ruling elites and their families, wars, conquests, the foundations of cities, forecasts, the gifts and tributes.

The set of Mesoamerican codices, offers information on Mesoamerican culture both pre-Columbian and colonial level, since it is composed of a dozen pre-Hispanic manuscripts and more than five hundred colonial manuscripts. It is also important that these manuscripts have been divided into subgroups based on the writing systems used, in which the most important are the Mixtec - Nahua and Maya, Mixtec, Nahua Codices: Among the pre-Hispanic Mixtec codices, Nahuatl are: Codex Borgia . Cospi codex. Fejérrary codex - Mayer Vatican Codex Laud and B (which form part of the Borgia) Codex Becker 1, Bodley, Colombino, Nuttall and Vienna (forming the group Nuttal) All papers mentioned above, from the region of Cholula, Tlaxcala and western Oaxaca, which also come from the codex Seldem-member group also Nuttal, whose dating is controversial, so we have decided not to point it out directly. Also belonging to the pre-Hispanic period, but from the geographical area of ​​the central highlands, are the following manuscripts: Bourbon Aubin These manuscripts have a format, style and traditional characteristics of the time, but its date is still inespecífica1. Pre-Hispanic codices of the Maya region: The most important codices of the Maya region are: Dresden Paris Madrid (consisting of the codices and Troano Cortesiano (also called Tro-Cortesiano) Codices Colonial: The colonial codices show two trends: At the level of the codices Mixtec, Nahua, we can say that there are two trends colonial level: The first is made up of manuscripts, which material, format, and traditional subject are related mainly to the Mixtec system Nahua Codices such as Bourbon, Tonalamatl and Aubin.

The second trend consists of manuscripts that have been influenced by systems of writing, painting and bookbinding western codices such as the Maglia-bechiano, Vatican A, ETC2. 1. See Santos, Eduardo Natalino two. Historiographical uses two Mixtec codices Nahua, in "Journal of History? 153 / 2 °, 2005, pp. 71. and. SANTOS, Eduardo Natalino two. Calendar, cosmography and cosmogony Nahuatl texts we do Seculo códicese XVI. Doutor Theseus. Counselor Janice Theodoro da Silva. São Paulo: Department of History gives FFLCH - USP, 2005, p. 90.) 2. See Santos, Eduardo Natalino two. Historiographical uses two Mixtec codices Nahua, in "Journal of History? 153 / 2 °, 2005, pp. 71.

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