Manuscripts painted by pre-Columbian and colonial Aztec
Part of the first pages of Codex Mendoza, depicting the founding of Tenochtitlan.Florentine Codex, Book 12 on the conquest of Mexico from the Mexica viewpoint. (Cortez's army advancing while scouts report to Moctezuma)Diego Durán: A comet seen by Moctezuma, interpreted as a sign of impending peril. (Codex Duran, page 1)Detail of first stones from the Codex Boturini depicting the departure from Aztlán.Codex Magliabechiano: ritual cannibalism. (Folio 73r)Codex Xolotl: Chimalpopoca in Huitzilopochtli ritual attireMapa Quinatzin: Palace of NezahualcoyotlBadianus Herbal Manuscript A page of the Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis, composed in 1552 by Martín de la Cruz and translated into Latin by Juan Badianus, illustrating the tlahçolteoçacatl, tlayapaloni, axocotl and chicomacatl plants used to make a remedy for a wounded body
