The Chavero Codex of Huexotzingo of 1578 documents a judicial proceeding against officials who collected excessive taxes in Huexotzingo, located in today's
Puebla, Mexico. There are 17 locations in the manuscript, which deals with tribute. These taxes, paid in "money, maize, and shirts and blankets" were collected in "the 21 districts of Huexotzingo between 1571 and 1577."
Some of the taxes were used to build a church in the San Salvador district. The numbers in the
codex
The codex (plural codices ) was the historical ancestor of the modern book. Instead of being composed of sheets of paper, it used sheets of vellum, papyrus, or other materials. The term ''codex'' is often used for ancient manuscript books, with ...
from the surveys submitted by officials are recorded in illustrations "using the
Mesoamerican numeric system, with some variations characteristic of the Mexica system."
A book on the codex, ''Códice Chavero de Huexotzingo: proceso a sus oficiales de república'', won the 2005 "Premio INAH Francisco Javier Clavijero."
Historian
Alfredo Chavero
Alfredo Chavero (1841–1906) was a Mexican archaeologist, politician, poet, and dramatist.
According to Howard F. Cline, "Chavero's most enduring claim to remembrance rests...on iscompletion and extension of Ramírez's plans to republish maj ...
donated the codex to the
National Museum of Mexico in 1906.
See also
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Aztec codices
Aztec codices ( nah, Mēxihcatl āmoxtli , sing. ''codex'') are Mesoamerican manuscripts made by the pre-Columbian Aztec, and their Nahuatl-speaking descendants during the colonial period in Mexico.
History
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References
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Mesoamerican codices
Puebla
History of taxation
1578 works
1570s in Mexico
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