The Codex Nuttall: A Picture Manuscript from Ancient Mexico

Description

Editor: Nuttall, Zelia  (1857-1933)

Publisher: Dover Books

Pub Date: 1975

Binding: Paperback

Condition:  Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, folds.  Wear to upper and lower front cover corners.  Front cover spine edge has an approx. 1/8″ chip.  Upper front cover corner at spine head has an approx. 1/4″ tear.  Wear, creasing to front cover bottom edge.  Some smudges to upper front cover.  Previous owner’s name on upper corner ffep.  Rear cover worn, scuffed.  What looks like a water mark along verso edge of rear cover, does not extend to any pages.  Wear to all rear cover corners.

Notes: Facsimile reprint of codex belonging to Lord Zouche of Harynworth, England.  Nuttall hired an artist to reproduce the screenfold (see photo above for example) manuscript, which was then republished by the Peabody Museum in 1902.  “The most significant, at least the best-understood, subject matter of the Nuttall screenfold is that which depicts and describes by means of iconographic, ideographic and phonetic symbols the events in the life of a great military and political hero from south central Mexico: 8-Deer Tiger Claw.  8-Deer Tiger Claw was the second ruler of the second dynasty of Tilantongo.  He lived from 1011 A.D. to 1063 A.D.” (“Reading the Codex Nuttall,” p. xv)  With the advances made in deciphering these glyphs, a real-time narrative of the codex would make this incredibly more interesting.