Tag: codices

Mexican Codices: Tovar Codex of Juan de Tovar

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Searching through the digital libraries that are currently available on-line can render some wonderful finds. Here are a couple of illustrations from the Tovar Codex, attributed to Mexican Jesuit priest Juan de Tovar, from the John Carter Brown library online. Many more illustrations are included in the JCB Archive of Early American Continue Reading →

Iqui-Balam: Tiger of the Moon

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We are book scroungers. Books of every age and provenance fill up bookshelves, trunks, and closets, and a few uncommon curiosities have made their ways into our ever-growing libraries over the course of the past three or four decades. One of these is a small-format, ragged, and weathered booklet–almost more Continue Reading →