Used book: a little out of my price range
My friends at Librería México Antigüo Libraria México Antigüo are my usual go-to guys for Mexico City history documents… but I can only afford so much, and while I might be willing to spring for some fairly esoteric and hard to find pieces, I’m afraid 9,500,000 pesos (about US$570,000) might be just a little too much for me. But, not for the INAH, National Insitute of Anthropology and History that coughed it up, when they had an offer they couldn’t refuse.
The Codex San Andres Tepilco showed up where least expected… right in Mexico City — Coyoacan to be exact. A 1611 Codex — an Aztec style “book” on amatl bark paper had been sitting in a private collection all along. The work … in Nahautl hiroglypics with Spanish language notes, details the fouding of Tenochtitlan back in the 1300s up through 1611, covering not just the dyanstic history of the Aztec “empire”, but the Spanish Conquest, the destruction and reconstruction of the City as Mexico City.
I’ll have to wait for the Kindle edition… sigh.
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