Room I · Pre-Hispanic

Codex Becker

Anonymous artist

Handmade copy of the Codex Becker, or Manuscript of the Cacique, on paper, bound. Pre-Hispanic ritual pictograph of the Mixtec civilization, kept in the ethnographic museum of Vienna. Antiquarian bookshop. G.M. Echániz. Mexico 1944. Drawing laid out horizontally.

Classification

Codices

Date

1300–1519 · 14th century

Material

Leather, paper

Dimensions

33.3 × 25.0 × 0.9 cm

Inventory no.

MUNAG.008.00488

Credits

Curator: Gabriela Zesati · Fotografía: Fernanda Celis