How to find Online Resources regarding Codices and Colonial Latin American Documents.
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How to find Online Resources regarding Codices and Colonial Latin American Documents.
The following resource list of databases for the study of codices and Latin American colonial documents was compiled by Claudia Brittenham, co-instructor for the workshop for New Spain at the Newberry: Demystifying Colonial Documents from the Ayer Collection, offered in 2018 and 2022 8 at the Newberry Library in Chicago, IL.
Synopsis: The Edward E. Ayer Collection of rare books and manuscripts contained 4,000 rare colonial documents from New Spain when it was given to the Newberry Library in 1911. The rich materials represented the early contacts between American Indians and Europeans, including sermons and dictionaries in indigenous languages handwritten by priests and pictorial court documents created by indigenous artists that contested land holdings in the Valley of Mexico. This one-day workshop will use the Ayer Collection and its history to discuss the historical migration of books in the global market. The workshop will also allow graduate students an opportunity to consult rare documents in the collection by learning how to read, contextualize, and interpret them.
Resources regarding Codices and Colonial Latin American Documents:
Newberry Library online catalog
Newberry Library Online Resources:
The Aztecs and the Making of Colonial Mexico, an online exhibition
Writing the Voices of the Americas, an online exhibition of print history
Allen Christenson’s literal and poetic translation of the Popol Vuh can be downloaded
Includes the Florentine Codex, The Matrícula de Tributos, the Mapa Siguenza, the Uppsala Map, several Relaciones Geográficas, the Codex Columbino, the Boban Calendar Wheel, the Codex Azcatitlan, the Codex Ixtlilxochitl, the Codex Mexicanus, the Tonalamatl Aubin, the Matrícula de Huehotzingo, the Codex Chavero of Huehotzingo, the Codex Osuna (here called the Painting of the Governor, Mayors, and Rulers of Mexico) and other documents. Click here to find these documents from Mexico.
Includes the Codex Cruz Badiano, the Tira de la Peregrinación/Codex Boturini, the Matrícula de Tributos, the Codex Mendoza, and the Tonalamatl Aubin, along with many other documents. (INAH is the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico)
Check your app provider for the Codex Mendoza app in English and Spanish, and the And the Tira de la Peregrinación app.
Includes the Primeros Memoriales, Relaciones Geográficas maps, and many other useful documents
Primeros Libros de las Américas
Of the approximately 220 titles known to have been printed in Mexico in the 16th century, 136 titles are known to have survived to the present day. This website compiles all known copies of these texts.
Biblioteca Nacional de España, Biblioteca Digital Hispánica:
Real Academia de la Historia, Biblioteca Digital-Codex Duran-
University of Texas Benson Library
Collection of Relaciones Geográficas documents
Bibliotheque Nationale de France
Codex Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4-10
Mapa de Qinatzin
Universidad Francisco Marroquín
Compilation sites:
William Ringle’s Digital Resources for the Study of Prehispanic Mexico
Facsimiles of many codices, maps, and other pictorial documents
Foundation for Ancient Mesoamerican Studies (FAMSI)
Facsimiles of Prehispanic codices
The Mapas Project, University of Oregon
A compilation of maps from Mexico and Guatemala, including several Relación Geográfica maps but many more as well.
Flippable versions of the Codex Aubin, Codex Boturini/Tira de la Peregrinación, Codex Mendoza, Codex Telleriano-Remensis, Codex Azcatitlan, and Tira de Tepechpan, along with ongoing transcription and translation projectsResources on Mesoamerican writing systems, the Codex Nutall, the Matricula de Tributos, the Lienzo de Tlaxcala, and other documents.
Mesoweb
This website is oriented towards the Classic Maya, and contains a number of useful resources