Codex Boturini
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Codex Boturini is a pre-Hispanic Aztec pictorial manuscript that chronicles the Mexica migration and the legendary origins of Tenochtitlan.
Aliases (1)
- Codex Aubin ×1
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Aztec codex
→
historical document → pictorial manuscript → |
| alternateName |
Tira de la Peregrinación
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| associatedWithCity |
Tenochtitlan
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|
| associatedWithDeity |
Huitzilopochtli
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|
| associatedWithPeople |
Mexica
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|
| chronicles |
Mexica migration
→
legendary origins of Tenochtitlan → |
| collection |
Mexican codices
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|
| colorUsage |
monochrome
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|
| countryLocatedIn |
Mexico
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|
| countryOfOrigin |
Mexico
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|
| culture |
Aztec
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Mexica → |
| currentLocation |
Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City
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| depicts |
Aztlan
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Chicomoztoc → Mexica leaders → footprint paths indicating movement → founding of Tenochtitlan → place glyphs → year signs → |
| ethnicGroupAssociated |
Mexica people
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|
| format |
screenfold manuscript
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|
| genre |
historical narrative
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migration narrative → |
| language |
Nahuatl pictographic tradition
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|
| material |
amatl paper
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|
| namedAfter |
Lorenzo Boturini Benaducci
NERFINISHED
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|
| readingDirection |
from right to left
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|
| regionOfOrigin |
Central Mexico
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|
| relatedWork |
Codex Aubin
→
Codex Azcatitlan → Codex Mendoza → |
| religionContext |
Aztec religion
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|
| researchField |
Mesoamerican studies
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art history → ethnohistory → |
| scriptType |
pictographic
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|
| significance |
important source for early history of Tenochtitlan
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primary source for Mexica migration traditions → |
| subject |
Mexica migration from Aztlan to the Basin of Mexico
→
foundation myths of Tenochtitlan → |
| timePeriod |
Late Postclassic Mesoamerica
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pre-Hispanic era → |
| usedAsSourceBy |
historians of pre-Hispanic Mexico
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|
| writingMedium |
black ink
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|
Referenced by (2)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
|
Tenochtitlan founding legend
→
Tenochtitlan founding legend ("Codex Aubin") → |
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