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Considered by many scholars the finest extant Mexican codex and one of the most important original sources for the study of pre-Columbian religion, the Codex Borgia is a work of profound beauty, filled with strange and evocative images related to calendrical, cosmological, ritual, and divinatory matters. Generally similar to such Mixtec manuscripts as the Codex Nuttall, the Codex Borgia is thought to have its origin (ca. A.D. 1400) in the southern central highlands of Mexico, perhaps in Puebla or Oaxaca. It is most probably a religious document that once belonged to a temple or sacred shrine.
One use of the Codex many have been to divine the future, for it includes ritual 260 day calendars, material on aspects of the planet Venus, and a sort of numerological prognostic of the lives of wedded couples. Another section concerns various regions of the world and the supernatural characters and attributes of those regions. Also described are the characteristics of a number of deities, while still other passages relate to installation ceremonies of rulers in pre-Columbian kingdoms.
Until the publication of this Dover edition, the Codex Borgia has been largely inaccessible to the general public. The priceless original is in the Vatican Library and previous photographic facsimiles are very rare or very expensive or both. Moreover, the original Codex has been damaged over the centuries, resulting in the obscuration and loss of many images. In order to recapture the beauty and grandeur of the original, Gisele Diaz and Alan Rodgers have painstakingly restored the Codex by hand a seven-year project employing the most scrupulous research and restoration techniques. The result is 76 large full-color plates of vibrant, striking depictions of gods, kings, warriors, mythical creatures, and mysterious abstract designs a vivid panorama that offers profound insights into pre-Columbian Mexican myth and ritual. Now students, anthropologists, lovers of fine art and rare books anyone interested in the art and culture of ancient Mexico can study the Codex Borgia in this inexpensive, accurate, well-made edition. An informative introduction by noted anthropologist Bruce E. Byland places the Codex in its historical context and helps elucidate its meaning and significance.

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Table of Contents THE PLATES The painted pages of the Codex Borgia - photo 1
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THE PLATES

The painted pages of the Codex Borgia restoration are here reproduced in numerically reverse order to make the reading of them as close to that of the original screenfold as possible (without the necessity of turning the book around halfway through). The codex is read from right to left, so that the reader is asked to turn to codex page 1 (= Dover Plate 1) and to read the color pages straight through from right to left and from back to front. Please note the detailed remarks in the introduction and commentary for the reading order on individual pages and groups of pages. The brief explanatory captions accompanying the plates have been provided by the writer of the introduction, Bruce E. Byland.

PLATE 76 Page 2 of eight deities PLATE 75 Page 1 of eight deities - photo 2

PLATE 76: Page 2 of eight deities

PLATE 75 Page 1 of eight deities PLATE 74 Male and female gods of - photo 3

PLATE 75: Page 1 of eight deities

PLATE 74 Male and female gods of sensuality PLATE 73 Gods of death and - photo 4

PLATE 74: Male and female gods of sensuality

PLATE 73 Gods of death and life with 26 days and the 20 day signs PLATE - photo 5

PLATE 73: Gods of death and life with 26 days and the 20 day signs

PLATE 72 The four directions with plumed serpents and deities PLATE 71 - photo 6

PLATE 72: The four directions with plumed serpents and deities

PLATE 71 The sun and the moon with 13 birds PLATE 70 Page 10 of the - photo 7

PLATE 71: The sun and the moon with 13 birds

PLATE 70 Page 10 of the tonalpohualli arranged as 20 groups of 13 days - photo 8

PLATE 70: Page 10 of the tonalpohualli arranged as 20 groups of 13 days

PLATE 69 Page 9 of the tonalpohualli arranged as 20 groups of 13 days - photo 9

PLATE 69: Page 9 of the tonalpohualli arranged as 20 groups of 13 days

PLATE 68 Page 8 of the tonalpohualli arranged as 20 groups of 13 days - photo 10

PLATE 68: Page 8 of the tonalpohualli arranged as 20 groups of 13 days

PLATE 67 Page 7 of the tonalpohualli arranged as 20 groups of 13 days - photo 11

PLATE 67: Page 7 of the tonalpohualli arranged as 20 groups of 13 days

PLATE 66 Page 6 of the tonalpohualli arranged as 20 groups of 13 days - photo 12

PLATE 66: Page 6 of the tonalpohualli arranged as 20 groups of 13 days

PLATE 65 Page 5 of the tonalpohualli arranged as 20 groups of 13 days - photo 13

PLATE 65: Page 5 of the tonalpohualli arranged as 20 groups of 13 days

PLATE 64 Page 4 of the tonalpohualli arranged as 20 groups of 13 days - photo 14

PLATE 64: Page 4 of the tonalpohualli arranged as 20 groups of 13 days

PLATE 63 Page 3 of the tonalpohualli arranged as 20 groups of 13 days - photo 15

PLATE 63: Page 3 of the tonalpohualli arranged as 20 groups of 13 days

PLATE 62 Page 2 of the tonalpohualli arranged as 20 groups of 13 days - photo 16

PLATE 62: Page 2 of the tonalpohualli arranged as 20 groups of 13 days

PLATE 61 Page 1 of the tonalpohualli arranged as 20 groups of 13 days - photo 17

PLATE 61: Page 1 of the tonalpohualli arranged as 20 groups of 13 days

PLATE 60 Page 3 of the numerological marriage prognostications PLATE 59 - photo 18

PLATE 60: Page 3 of the numerological marriage prognostications

PLATE 59 Page 2 of the numerological marriage prognostications PLATE 58 - photo 19

PLATE 59: Page 2 of the numerological marriage prognostications

PLATE 58 Page 1 of the numerological marriage prognostications PLATE 57 - photo 20

PLATE 58: Page 1 of the numerological marriage prognostications

PLATE 57 Six supernatural couples PLATE 56 Gods of life and death and - photo 21

PLATE 57: Six supernatural couples

PLATE 56 Gods of life and death and the tonalpohualli PLATE 55 Six - photo 22

PLATE 56: Gods of life and death, and the tonalpohualli

PLATE 55 Six deities with 20 day names PLATE 54 Four more piercing - photo 23

PLATE 55: Six deities with 20 day names

PLATE 54 Four more piercing sacrifices PLATE 53 Page 5 of the five - photo 24

PLATE 54: Four more piercing sacrifices

PLATE 53 Page 5 of the five directional trees the Center Xochipilli as a - photo 25

PLATE 53: Page 5 of the five directional trees, the Center; Xochipilli as a deer; and the
first of five piercing sacrifices

PLATE 52 Page 4 of the five directional trees the South PLATE 51 Page 3 - photo 26

PLATE 52: Page 4 of the five directional trees, the South

PLATE 51 Page 3 of the five directional trees the West PLATE 50 Page 2 - photo 27

PLATE 51: Page 3 of the five directional trees, the West

PLATE 50 Page 2 of the five directional trees the North PLATE 49 Page 1 - photo 28
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