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Mappa Reinisch.
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 9157
Scope and content
Copies of an 1886 reproduction of the original Mappa Reinisch, which was written March 23, 1586. The reproduction was made by Dujardine under the auspices of Comte Henri de Charencey in an edition of 25 copies, in Paris. It shows a genealogical tree of a Mexican tribe with hieroglyphic characters and text in Aztec written in Roman letters. Includes note of provenance signed by Marshall Saville. Two of the pieces are labeled, "Fragment du verso" and "recto." Has Indian writing and symbols.
Dates:
1886; Undated
Plan of Teotihuacan on maguey paper.
Item — Huntington box 32 - folder 1
Identifier: 9160
Scope and content
Copy of an old city plan of the ancient city of Teotihuacan.
Dates:
1898; Undated
Three rare pre-columbian codices.
Collection — Huntington box 32 - folder 1
Identifier: 9159
Scope and content
Numbers 263, 317, and 356 in Glass' A Survey and Census of Native Middle American pictorial manuscripts. Codices are also described in Analas del Museo Nacional De Mexico for 1886. Published as a set with the original price of $3.00. Lithographed in Paris from the originals, which were held in the Bibliothèque Nationale. Codices include the Mapa Quinatzin, Mapa Tepechpan, and Mapa Tlotzin. They depict Aztec history from 1298 to 1596, including Tenochtitlan, Chapultepec, Aztec emperor...
Dates:
1886; Undated
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