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100 1 $aBrotherston, Gordon.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50042782
245 10 $aPainted books from Mexico :$bcodices in UK collections and the world they represent /$cGordon Brotherston.
260 $aLondon :$bBritish Museum Press,$c1995.
300 $a224 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c26 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 213-219) and index.
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tThe Books of Mesoamerica --$gCh. 2.$tResponses to Invasion --$gCh. 3.$tThe Island Aztlan --$gCh. 4.$tSeven Caves and the Chichimec --$gCh. 5.$tThe Mixtec Lineage Tree --$gCh. 6.$tQuetzalcoatl's Tula --$gCh. 7.$tRitual Synthesis --$gCh. 8.$tStating the Case.
520 $aThe painted books of ancient Mexico constitute a particularly important chapter of world literature. The work of the tlacuilo, or scribes, goes back thousands of years before the Spanish Conquest; their exquisite manuscripts were written and drawn on native paper or skin and, later, on European paper. The vast majority of these codices were destroyed during the invasion; a precious few have survived.
520 8 $aAbout twenty of the finest of these are in British collections and Professor Brotherston has undertaken a close study of them, comparing them with Mexican books in America and elsewhere.
520 8 $aBesides being beautiful works of art in their own right, the codices offer invaluable insights into the history, religion and legends of the ancient civilisations of Mesoamerica: the Olmec, Maya, Chichimec and Mexica (Aztec). The books meticulously record wars, conquests, dynastic disputes and the biographies of great rulers like the Mixtec king Eight Deer.
520 8 $aComplex ritual calendars give a framework for the religious observances of these peoples and offer testimony to their obsession with dates and record-keeping; maps record the spread of the Mexica, Chichimec and Mixtec across Mesoamerica. After the Conquest most of the 'pagan' books were burned, but the book-making tradition continued and retained many of the old forms and conventions. Post-Conquest legal documents, for example, give stark evidence of the rapacity and brutality of the invaders.
650 0 $aManuscripts, Mexican (Pre-Columbian)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85080746
650 0 $aManuscripts, Mexican$zGreat Britain.
650 0 $aIndians of Mexico$xLanguages$xWriting.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85065182
650 0 $aIndian art$xThemes, motives.
650 0 $aIndian mythology$zMexico.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94001324
650 0 $aIndian calendar$zMexico.
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