Notes upon the Codex Ramirez
Subtitle: with a translation of the same.
By: By Henry Phillips, jr.
Contributors: Phillips, Henry, 1838-1895.
Published: 1884
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 651
Subjects: Aztecs.; Aztec mythology.; Mexico -- History -- To 1519.
Notes: Replace; LC copy replaced by preservation microfilm
Detached from American Philosophical Society.  Proceedings, v.21 (1883-84)
Caption title.
Read before the American Philosophical Society, October 19, 1883.
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.