The Codex Borgia: A Full-Color Restoration of the Ancient by Gisele Díaz,Alan Rodgers

By Gisele Díaz,Alan Rodgers

Considered via many students the best extant Mexican codex and probably the most very important unique assets for the examine of pre-Columbian faith, the Codex Borgia is a piece of profound good looks, jam-packed with unusual and evocative pictures relating to calendrical, cosmological, ritual, and divinatory concerns. mostly just like such Mixtec manuscripts because the Codex Nuttall, the Codex Borgia is inspiration to have its beginning (ca. A.D. 1400) within the southern vital highlands of Mexico, might be in Puebla or Oaxaca. it truly is most likely a spiritual record that after belonged to a temple or sacred shrine.
One use of the Codex many were to divine the longer term, for it contains ritual 260 day calendars, fabric on facets of the planet Venus, and a type of numerological prognostic of the lives of wedded undefined. one other part matters a number of areas of the realm and the supernatural characters and attributes of these areas. additionally defined are the features of a few deities, whereas nonetheless different passages relate to install ceremonies of rulers in pre-Columbian kingdoms.
Until the e-book of this Dover version, the Codex Borgia has been mostly inaccessible to most of the people. The valuable unique is within the Vatican Library and former photographic facsimiles are very infrequent or very pricey or either. furthermore, the unique Codex has been broken over the centuries, leading to the obscuration and lack of many photos. so that it will recapture the sweetness and grandeur of the unique, Gisele Diaz and Alan Rodgers have painstakingly restored the Codex by hand— a seven-year venture — applying the main scrupulous examine and recovery ideas. the result's seventy six huge full-color plates of bright, outstanding depictions of gods, kings, warriors, legendary creatures, and mysterious summary designs — a shiny landscape that provides profound insights into pre-Columbian Mexican delusion and formality. Now scholars, anthropologists, enthusiasts of good paintings and infrequent books — somebody drawn to the artwork and tradition of historic Mexico — can examine the Codex Borgia during this low-cost, exact, well-made version. An informative advent by way of famous anthropologist Bruce E. Byland areas the Codex in its old context and is helping elucidate its which means and significance.

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