The Codex of Tlatelolco is a

pictorial An image is a visual representation of something. It can be two-dimensional, three-dimensional, or somehow otherwise feed into the visual system to convey information. An image can be an artifact, such as a photograph or other two-dimensiona ...

central

Mexican Mexican may refer to: Mexico and its culture *Being related to, from, or connected to the country of Mexico, in North America ** People *** Mexicans, inhabitants of the country Mexico and their descendants *** Mexica, ancient indigenous people ...

manuscript A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand – or, once practical typewriters became available, typewritten – as opposed to mechanically printing, printed or repr ...

containing a history of events occurring in Tlatelolco, from before 1550 to after 1564, in the period before and after the

Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, also known as the Conquest of Mexico or the Spanish-Aztec War (1519–21), was one of the primary events in the Spanish colonization of the Americas. There are multiple 16th-century narratives of the eve ...

. Due to its name, it is sometimes confused with the Latin script, the manuscript

Anales de Tlatelolco The ''Anales de Tlatelolco'' (''Annals of Tlatelolco'') is a codex manuscript written in Nahuatl, using Latin characters, by anonymous Aztec authors. The text has no pictorial content. Although there is an assertion that the text was a copy of o ...

, also sometimes called the same name. The codex, drawn up using the Aztec ideographic script, describes participation of Tlatelolco warriors in putting an end to the rebellion in Mexico's northern frontiers in 1541. The Codex, in addition to the so-called The Tlaxcala canvases are sometimes cited as one of the clearest examples of the emerging cultural mestisization in Mexican society in the first decades after the Conquest: within the text, new rulers are presented as continuators of old traditions, in the illustrations warriors dressed in jaguar skins and costumes of eagles dance at the foot of the new Spanish the viceroy of New Spain and the new archbishop in the same way as they are depicted on the previous pages dancing in front of the priests and

tlatoani ''Tlatoani'' ( , "one who speaks, ruler"; plural ' or tlatoque) is the Classical Nahuatl term for the ruler of an , a pre-Hispanic state. It is the noun form of the verb "tlahtoa" meaning "speak, command, rule". As a result, it has been various ...

. The pictographic layer of the codex shows the influences of Renaissance European art.

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