| Title | Notes upon the Codex Ramirez, with a translation of the same. By Henry Phillips, jr.
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| Published | Philadelphia, 1884.
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| Description | 616-651 p. map. 23cm.
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| General Note | Detached from American Philosophical Society. Proceedings, v.21 (1883-84)
Caption title.
Read before the American Philosophical Society, October 19, 1883.
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| Historical Note | Translation of a Spanish anonymous history of the Aztecs, apparently based upon a series of hieroglyphic paintings, now lost. The original was first published with title as above, by Garcia Icazbalceta in the Anales del Museo nacional de México, t. II (1882) p. [83]-106, and later in the Nueva colección de documentos para la historia de México, III (1891) p. 228-263, together with various pieces selected from a codex in his possession entitled by one of its former owners "Libro de oro y tesoro indico". The "Historia"--the first piece in the codex--is a copy of the original work (now apparently lost) which was accompanied by paintings and presumably composed upon the order of Bishop Sebastian Ramirez de Fuenleal (d.1547) who took it with him to Madrid. The manuscript of the "Historia" is called "Codex Ramirez" by Phillips, and "Codex Cumarraga" by A. Chavero (México á través de los siglos t. I [1887] p. xxiii) without any apparent reason, according to Icazbalceta, who, because of its appropriateness, retained the title "Historia [etc.]" entered on the manuscript by one of its former owners.
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| Subjects | Indians of Mexico -- Legends.
Mexico -- History -- To 1519.
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| Other Authors | Phillips, Henry, 1838-1895.
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| LC Card Number | 05-9883//R |
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| | WRHS Research Library: F 1219 C669
mq56242: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
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