The Mixtec Group is the designation given by scholars to a number of mostly pre-Columbian documents from the
Mixtec
The Mixtecs (), or Mixtecos, are indigenous Mesoamerican peoples of Mexico inhabiting the region known as La Mixteca of Oaxaca and Puebla as well as La Montaña Region and Costa Chica Regions of the state of Guerrero. The Mixtec Culture w ...
people of the state of
Oaxaca
Oaxaca ( , also , , from nci, Huāxyacac ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca), is one of the 32 states that compose the political divisions of Mexico, Federative Entities of Mexico. It is ...
in the southern part of the Republic of Mexico. They are distinguished by their principally historical and geographical content.
Included in the Mixtec Group are:
* The
Codex Zouche-Nuttall
The Codex Zouche-Nuttall or Codex Tonindeye is an accordion-folded pre-Columbian document of Mixtec pictography, now in the collections of the British Museum. It is one of about 16 manuscripts from Mexico that are entirely pre-Columbian in origin ...
.
* The
Codex Selden
The Codex Selden (also known as the Codex Añute) is a Mexican manuscript of Mixtec origin. The codex is an account of the genealogy of the Jaltepec dynasty from the tenth to the 16th century. Codex Selden is possibly a fragment of a much longer i ...
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* The
Codex Colombino-Becker
The Codex Colombino is a part of a Mixtec codex held in the collection of the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. It is the only Mesoamerican codex that remains in Mexican territory. It deals with the genealogy, marriages and bellico ...
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* The
Codex Waecker-Gotter
The Codex Waecker-Gotter, also known as the ''Code Sanchez-Solís'' or ''Codex Egerton'', is a Pre-Conquest-style manuscript from Mexico that since 1911 has been in the British Museum's collection (reference number Am1962,03.8).
Description
The ...
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* The
Codex Vindobonensis (or Vienna, as it is sometimes called).
* The
Codex Bodley
The Codex Bodley is an important pictographic manuscript and example of Mixtec historiography. It was named after the colloquial name of the Bodleian Library, where it has been stored since the 17th century.
History
While the exact date of its ...
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See also
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Mixtec writing
Mixtec writing originated as a logographic writing system during the Post-Classic period in Mesoamerican history. Records of genealogy, historic events, and myths are found in the pre-Columbian Mixtec codices. The arrival of Europeans in 1520 AD ...
External links
Mixtec Group codices
References
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