'Codex Laud': Mexican pictorial screenfold manuscript, 15th century (?)
'Codex Laud': Mexican pictorial screenfold manuscript (260-day calendarial cycle ('tonalpohualli') illustrated with appropriate rituals and offerings used in divination; part of the so-called 'Borgia Group' of divinatory-ritual books).
Dates
- Creation: 15th century (?)
Extent
1 item
Language of Materials
- Spanish; Castilian
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 678
Arrangement
Originally arranged and housed in 1641 at the Bodleian in Duke Humfrey’s Library, Selden End, compartment as ‘B 65’, see Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. II, p. 14
Other Finding Aids
Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. II, no. 546
Henry O. Coxe, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae pars secunda codices Latinos et Miscellaneous Laudianos complectens (Oxford, 1885, reprinted in 1973, with numerous corrections and additions, and an historical introduction by R.W. Hunt), Misc. no. 678
Custodial History
Manuscript 1744 acquired by the Bodleian Library
Physical Facet
Preserved in mid-16th century gilt-tooled Italian slip-case
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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