Códice Laud.
Contributors: Anders, Ferdinand.; Jansen, Maarten E. R. G. N. 1952-; Cruz Ortiz, Alejandra.; Reyes García, Luis.
Edition: 1. ed.
Series: Códices mexicanos ;; 6
Publisher: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt; Fondo de Cultura Económica
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Austria; México
Language: spa
Number of pages: 46
Subjects: Codex Laud; Manuscripts, Nahuatl -- Facsimiles; Aztec mythology; Aztecs -- Writing; Manuscripts, Mexican -- England -- Oxford -- Facsimiles
Other titles: Pintura de la muerte y de los destinos.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (commentary vol., p. 299-315).
The contents of the reproduced codex, pictorial throughout, may be viewed, wholly or in part, as pictographic writing expressing Aztec (Nahuatl) concepts; the interpretive commentary is in Spanish (it includes also some thematically related texts in modern Mixtec with Spanish translation).
Issued in a case, 30 x 30 cm.
Title from case; imprint from the accompanying commentary volume.
The full-col. facsim. is, like the original, folded accordion-style to form 24 quasi-leaves; the facsim. carries on its added border the modern pagination 1(24)-24(1) on one side and 25(46)-46(25) on the other in the reverse direction, omitting blank versos of pp. 1(24) and 24(1).
The unbound commentary volume has t.p.: La pintura de la muerte y de los destinos : libro explicativo del llamado Códice Laud, Misc. 678, Bodleian Library, Oxford, Inglaterra / introducción y explicación: Ferdinand Anders, Maarten Jansen ; con una contribución de Alejandra Cruz Ortiz. At head of title : Ferdinand Anders (Viena), Maarten Jansen (Leiden), Luis Reyes Garcia (México): (Comisión Técnica Investigadora).
"Xiku ña chanu, Uipil de novia" (by Alejandra Cruz Ortiz, in modern Mixtec with Spanish translation): commentary vol., p. 140-146.