Codex Tudela

Folios 98 verso and 99 recto, showing aspects of theAztec calendar:the birds of the day, the lords of the night, and the day signs.

TheCodex Tudelais a 16th-centurypictorialAztec codex.It is based on the same prototype as theCodex Magliabechiano,theCodex Ixtlilxochitl,and other documents of theMagliabechiano Group.

Little is known about the codex's history. TheSpanish governmentbought the manuscript when it was rediscovered in 1940, and it is now held by theMuseo de AméricainMadrid.SrJosé Tudela de la Orden,after whom it was named, worked at the Museo de America and made the codex known to scholars. In Spanish it is sometimes called theCódice del Museo de América.

The Tudela Codex is a document written in mid 16th century inMexicoduring the early colonial stage over European laid paper. It has three parts,Libro Indígena,Libro Pintado EuropeoandLibro Escrito Europeo. The first part occupies pages 11 to 125 and was painted by the Indian scribes in a Pre-Hispanic style near 1540, containing iconography and hieroglyphic writing information regarding Mexican orAztecreligion; types of calendar, rituals regarding disease and death, gods of the drunk, etc. The codex is a religious document that details deities, religious rites, religious ceremonies, cosmological beliefs, calendars and rituals regarding topics such as disease and death.

Codex Tudelaf. 69r detail

Further reading

• Boone, Elizabeth Hill (1983).The Codex Magliabechiano and the Lost Prototype of the Magliabechiano Group.Berkeley: University of California Press.ISBN9780520045200.
• Robertson, Donald (1994).Mexican Manuscript Painting of the Early Colonial Period: The Metropolitan Schools.Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

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