Codex Ixtlilxochitl: Codex Aubin and Codex Goupil - Facsimile edition Premium Color Ink and White Paper. Paperback – February 22, 2025

This edition is facsimile printed edition with premium color ink and white paper.The Codex Ixtlilxochitl—also known as the Codex Aubin and the Codex Goupil—is a composite manuscript, all of its portions having been created in central Mexico for a European reader. It contains images, Spanish- and indigenous-language labels, and Spanish-language text describing feasts, deities, and Aztec culture of the pre-Columbian period, as well as a text on the Aztec calendar. It comprises three distinct sections dating from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, perhaps brought together as early as the time of the writing of the last section.It is named for Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxóchitl (1578-1650) a descendant of Texcoco rulers and translator for the viceroyalty in Mexico City, who may have been responsible for writing the last portion of the manuscript.The Codex Ixtlilxochitl's twenty-seven folios of European paper boast twenty-one half-page and six full-page illustrations. The first section (fols. 94-104) is mostly devoted to feasts and rituals, with a half-page illustration at the top of each page and a description below. Part two (fols. 105-112) features six full-page images depicting Aztec rulers, an Aztec deity, and a temple, with a commentary in Spanish taken from the Relación de Texcoco of Juan Bautista de Pomar (1582). The third section (fols. 113—122) is an unillustrated description of the Aztec calendar taken from the Historia General of Bernardino de Sahagún (1576). Read more