The Codex Tulane [Facsimile Scroll + Codex Tulane "Kommentar" book].. This item is unavailable.
Published by Tulane University Middle American Research Institute, New Orleans, 1991
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: A Book Preserve/ John A. Crider, Bookseller, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.A Book Preserve/ John A. Crider, Bookseller
AbeBooks seller since June 29, 2015
Condition: Used - Fine
£ 1,080.29
Item description from seller
Facsimile scroll on card stock glossy paper of an indigenous Mexican manuscript originally composed on glued deer hides. Only two hundred copies were printed by the firm Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt of Graz, Austria, of which this is number 127. Facsimile scroll in fine condition in fine buckram-covered tube. In addition there is a book of historical-interpretive commentary on the manuscript: a beige buckram cloth hardcover in fine condition. 4to 146 pp. Maps Illus., genealogical charts, notes, biblio., index. The codex begins with a Mixtec text naming the boundaries of San Juan Ñumí, a town in northern Oaxaca. The rest of the codex is pictorial and reads from top to bottom. A mythological origin scene is followed by the genealogies of two ruling dynasties from the polities of Acatlán and likely Chila in a Mixtec-speaking area of southern Puebla. The manuscript is also known as the Codex Huamelulpan. This is an oversized item that will require additional postage on international orders; we will contact buyer of actual costs and authorization prior to shipping.…
Seller Inventory # LREUP-FJHR-0225
Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Codex Tulane [Facsimile Scroll + Codex Tulane "Kommentar" book].
- Author
- Mary Elizabeth Smith and Ross Permenter
- Publisher
- Tulane University Middle American Research Institute, New Orleans
- Publication year
- 1991
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Seller catalogs
- Colonial Latin America, Native American