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Title: Codex Borgia : A Full-Color Restoration of the Ancient Mexican Manuscript by Gisele Diaz, Alan Rodgers ISBN: 0-486-27569-8 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 22 June, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent, and at this price...
Comment: This is a wonderful resouce for those interested in ancient Mexico. Full photographic facsimilies of these codices are hideously expensive, and really, most are not in great shape. After extensive research, we have here a great reproduction of what this important work looked like when it was "fresh off the presses." It is beautiful, and in comparison to Dover's similar Codex Nuttall, this work comes with a MUCH better introduction that explains more of the text, the context, and the ideology. Readers will be able to better understand some of the religious principles of the ancient Mexicans (and there is some debate whether this book was painted by Aztecs or Mixtecs, which I won't bore you with!). It shows gods, ceremonies, the calender, and other religious iconography which is interesting, and would be a revelation for more the artisticly inclined. The visuals are wonderfully presented and all in all this is an astonishing bargain. Those with even a casual interest in New World archaeology or art NEED to get this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Terrific insight
Comment: This book gives terrific insight into the ancient Mexicans, their theology and world view, and their way of life. The illustrations are extremely well done, and the interpretation is on the mark. A must-have for anyone interested in ancient Mesoamerica.
Rating: 5
Summary: Pre-Columbian Mexican Rituals and Myths
Comment: An excellent source book for anyone looking for authentic reproductions of the original that is housed in the Vatican Libray. This is a reproduction of an ancient document from the Mixtecs, around 1400 AD, from the area today known as Puebla or Oaxaxa. The project took seven years to complete as they painstakingly reproduced the Codex with accuracy and authenticity. The color plates are a delight to the eye as they depict kings, mythical warriors and the Mixtec belief system. Each plate is explained, in great detail, in the beginning of the book for your convevience. The colorful plates are intricate and exact on thick high quality paper. This is great stuff for an artist working in any medium that needs inspiration or just wants to reproduce. A good book for history buffs too.
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Title: An Illustrated Dictionary of the Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya by Mary Miller, Karl Taube ISBN: 0500279284 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Codex Nuttall by Zelia Nuttall ISBN: 0486231682 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1975 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Aztec Thought and Culture: A Study of the Ancient Nahuatl Mind (Civilization of the American Indian Series, Vol 67) by Miguel Leon-Portilla, Miguel Lebon Portilla, Jack Emory Davis ISBN: 0806122951 Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: September, 1990 List Price(USD): $16.15 |
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Title: The Essential Codex Mendoza by Frances F. Berdan, Patricia Rieff Anawalt ISBN: 0520204549 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: January, 1997 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Codex Telleriano-Remensis : Ritual, Divination, and History in a Pictorial Aztec Manuscript by Eloise Quiñones Keber, Michel Besson ISBN: 0292769016 Publisher: Univ of Texas Press Pub. Date: 1995 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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