Analyzing and translating the still legible glosses, scholar Patrick Johansson Keraudren found them to be place names or short phrases of a 16th century quality. The codex has 24 alphabetical Nahuatl glosses of a faded sepia-colored ink, added after its manufacture. Instead, he used footprints in black ink to carry the Mexica from one destination to the next. Erasures present in the codex on folios 8 to 11 show that the tlacuilo first tried to connect places and dates by connecting the date of arrival to the location and then to the date of arrival at the next destination. The lines of red ink connect the date glyphs to the locations the Mexica arrive at. Those two colors were also of great importance to pre-Conquest tlacuiloque, as noted by period sources. These colors, derived from natural pigments, would have been widely available to tlacuiloque of the pre-Conquest and early Colonial period, per the Florentine Codex. The codex appears to be unfinished, as it was never painted with more than the red ink used to link the date blocks. The alphabetic writing in the codex, also in Nahuatl, appears to have been added later. The style consistency of the images suggested that the codex had a single author. The tlacuilo who fashioned the Boturini Codex was familiar with the Aztec writing system. The codex consists of a single 549 cm (216 in) long and 19.8 cm (7.8 in) high sheet of amate, folded like an accordion into 21.5 sheets 25.4 cm (10.0 in) wide on average. The former name comes from the 18th century Italian scholar and collector of Aztec manuscripts, Lorenzo Boturini Benaduci. This codex is referred to either as Codex Boturini or as the Tira de la Peregrinación de los Mexica. The codex is currently located in the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. This Codex has become an insignia of Mexica history and pilgrimage and is carved into a stone wall at the entrance of the National Museum of Anthropology and History in Mexico City. At least two other Aztec codices have been influenced by the content and style of the Boturini Codex. Its date of manufacture is unknown, but likely to have occurred before or just after the Conquest of the Aztec Empire. Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.Codex Boturini, also known as the Tira de la Peregrinación de los Mexica (Tale of the Mexica Migration), is an Aztec codex, which depicts the migration of the Azteca, later Mexica, people from Aztlán.Britannica Beyond We’ve created a new place where questions are at the center of learning.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.
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