Codex Bodley

E167259

Codex Bodley is a pre-Columbian Mixtec pictorial manuscript that records the genealogy, dynastic history, and rituals of Mixtec rulers in what is now Oaxaca, Mexico.

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Label Occurrences
Codex Bodley canonical 5
Bodleian Codex 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mesoamerican codex
Mixtec codex
pictorial manuscript
pre-Columbian manuscript
alsoKnownAs Codex Bodley
surface form: Bodleian Codex
approximateDate 15th century
associatedPeople Mixtec people
surface form: Mixtec nobility
associatedPlace Tilantongo region
Tlaxiaco region
condition well preserved
countryOfOrigin Mexico
culture Mixtec civilization
currentRepository Bodleian Library
surface form: Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
fieldOfStudy Mesoamerican studies
art history
ethnohistory
format screenfold codex
genre genealogical manuscript
historical manuscript
hasPart obverse side
reverse side
language Mixtec
locatedIn Bodleian Library
Oxford
United Kingdom
material deerskin
partOf Mixtec codices corpus
records dynastic history of Mixtec polities
genealogy of Mixtec rulers
rituals of Mixtec rulers
regionOfOrigin Oaxaca
relatedTo Codex Colombino
Codex Selden
Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus I
Codex Nuttall
surface form: Codex Zouche-Nuttall
script Mixtec pictographic script
shelfmark MS. Mex. d. 1
significance important example of pre-Columbian bookmaking
key source for Mixtec history
subject Mixtec dynastic politics
Mixtec ritual practices
Mixtec royal marriages
Mixtec territorial claims
timePeriod Late Postclassic Mesoamerica
usedFor legitimization of dynastic rule
recording noble lineages
writingSystemType pictographic

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Mixtec civilization notableWork Codex Bodley
Ñuu Savi civilization notableCodex Codex Bodley
Mixtec pictographic script foundIn Codex Bodley
Codex Bodley alsoKnownAs Codex Bodley
this entity surface form: Bodleian Codex
Codex Selden relatedTo Codex Bodley
Coixtlahuaca associatedWith Codex Bodley