The Mapa Quinatzin is a 16th-century

Nahua The Nahuas () are a group of the indigenous people of Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. They comprise the largest indigenous group in Mexico and second largest in El Salvador. The Mexica (Aztecs) were of Nahua ethnicity, a ...

pictorial document, consisting of three sheets of

amatl Amate ( es, amate from nah, āmatl ) is a type of bark paper that has been manufactured in Mexico since the precontact times. It was used primarily to create codices. Amate paper was extensively produced and used for both communication, record ...

paper that depict the history of

Acolhuacan Acolhuacan or Aculhuacan (Nahuatl: ''ācōlhuahcān''; ) was a pre-Columbian province in the east of the Valley of Mexico, inhabited by the Acolhua. Its capital was initially Coatlichan, but this settlement was eventually eclipsed in importance b ...

References

External links

High Definition scans of the codex at the French National Library

Codices 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 ...

Manuscripts by area A 16th century in the Aztec civilization 16th century in Mexico 16th century in New Spain Pictograms {{mesoamerica-stub

See also

References

External links