Antiquities of Mexico
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| Antiquities of Mexico | |
 Title page of volume 1 |
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| Author | Lord Kingsborough |
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| Country | London, England |
| Publisher | A. Aglio (Vols. 1–5), R. Havell (Vols. 6–7), H.G. Bohn (Vols. 8–9) |
| Publication date | 1830–1848 |
| Media type | elephant folio |
| Pages | 9 vols. |
| OCLC | 5852094 |
Antiquities of Mexico is a compilation of facsimile copies of Mesoamerican literature such as Maya codices, Mixtec codices, and Aztec codices as well as historical accounts and explorers' descriptions of archaeological ruins. It was assembled and published by Edward King, Lord Kingsborough, in the early decades of the 19th century. While much of the material pertains to pre-Columbian cultures, there are also documents relevant to studies of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. Antiquities of Mexico was produced to make copies of rare manuscripts in European collections available for study by scholars.
The work consists of nine volumes, each published in a large elephant folio format. It was originally planned as ten, but Lord Kingsborough died before the full work could be completed.
Many of the facsimiles of codices are hand-colored.
[edit] References
- Kingsborough, Edward King, Viscount (1830–1848). Antiquities of Mexico: comprising fac-similes of ancient Mexican paintings and hieroglyphics, preserved in the royal libraries of Paris, Berlin and Dresden, in the Imperial library of Vienna, in the Vatican library; in the Borgian museum at Rome; in the library of the Institute at Bologna; and in the Bodleian library at Oxford. Together with the Monuments of New Spain, by M. Dupaix: with their respective scales of measurement and accompanying descriptions. The whole illustrated by many valuable inedited manuscripts, by Augustine Aglio (9 vols.), London: A. Aglio (Vols. 1–5), R. Havell (Vols. 6–7), H.G. Bohn (Vols. 8–9). OCLC 5852094.
- Wauchope, Robert [©1962] (1975). Lost Tribes and Sunken Continents: Myth and Method in the Study of the American Indians, Fifth impression, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-22687-635-7. OCLC 50928664.
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