Laud codex

The former Mexicans venerated a multitude of small gods of the intoxication which they called the 400 rabbits. There were 400 of them, (i.e. an infinity) because said they, the ways of enivrer are innumerable… With fiber of l´agave the Aztec ones made the paper of the codices and the wire to make bottom-of-the-range fabric. With the spines they carried out car-sacrifices by boring the language and the sex. Lastly, the worms of this plant constituted a met of choice in l´art culinary prehispanic.]]

The Codex Laud is a handwritten mazatèque (south of Mexico City) comprising 24 layers (dimensions: 15,7 X 16,5 cm, length: 3,98 m) out of animal leather folded in accordion. It is currently preserved at Bodleian Library, of Oxford.

The Laud Codex

Manuscript prehispanic which retranscribes the calendar of predictions and ritual. It is divided into 11 parts, of which a passage which details the stages of the human life and two others which evoke l initiation of the priests. This codex which belongs to the Borgia Group, was painted at two different periods and of the leather bindings were added thereafter at the ends. C´est best preserved manuscripts précolombiens, the majority of paintings being in perfect state. Its name comes from William Laud (1573-1645), archbishop and vice-chancellor of l university d´Oxford which made of it gift with the Library of this prestigious university.

Curiosities

Curious fact: one of the preceding names of the Laud Codex is: “Liber Hieroglyphicorum Aegyptorum”. Nothing to however see with the Egyptian hyéroglyphes!

Internal bonds

indigenous Codices of central Mexico
Codex Borgia
Codex Borbonicus

External bonds

the 4 principal Mayas Codices: Paris codex, Dresdes Codex, Madrid Codex, Grolier Codex.
the integrality of all the Codices Mayas, Aztec and Mixtèques, of which the Borgia Codex.
a site which presents the principal codices of central Mexico

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