Codex Mendoza
Subtitle: the Mexican manuscript known as the Collection of Mendoza and preserved in the Bodleian library, Oxford
By: edited and translated by James Cooper Clark.
Contributors: Clark, James Cooper, ed. and tr.; Bodleian Library.
Publisher: Waterlow & Sons, Limited
Published: 1938
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Manuscripts, Mexican -- Facsimiles.; Indians of Mexico -- Languages -- Writing.; Indians of Mexico.; Mexico -- Antiquities.; Mexico -- History -- To 1519 -- Sources.
Notes: Plan accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress.
Ortellius' map of Mexico, 1579, on lining-paper at end of v. 2.
"The Mendoza codex is a Mexican pictographic manuscript prepared on the authority of Don Antonio de Mendoza, the first viceroy of New Spain, for Charles V ... A Spanish priest, familiar with the Nauatl, or Mexican language, was employed by the viceroy to set down in Spanish the explanations of the glyphs as interpreted by the Mexicans themselves."--v. 1, p.3.
The facsimile includes the original pictographs in colors and the Spanish explanations.
Table of contents: title: I. Introduction. pt. 1. The history from year to year.  pt. 2. The tribute from year to year.  pt. 3. The life from year to year. Appendices: A. Three early missionaries to Mexico: Olmos, Sahagún, and Molina.  B. The games of tiachtli and patolli.; title: II.  Place-names. Appendix. Index to place-names.  Select bibliography (p.65-69)  Index and glossary.; title: III. Codex Mendoza facsimile.