Codex Mendoza
Códice Mendocino

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Title

Codex Mendoza
Códice Mendocino

Subject

Manuscript, Aztec Triple Alliance, Tributary Demands, Pictoral, Colonial History

Description

A pictoral manuscript that documents an Aztec tributary order.

Creator

Created by Indigenous Mexica artists for the Spanish Crown

Source

Modern day central Mexico

Publisher

Unknown Mexica artist(s), Tenochitilan

Date

1541 - 1542 CE

Contributor

Unsure if Spanish annotations were contributed as part of the original completion or were added subsequently.

Rights

Bodleian Library

Format

Manuscript

Language

Pictoral, Nahuatl and Spanish

Type

Political and economic manuscript that was created for didactic purposes

Identifier

Bodleian Library

Coverage

Political affairs during the late post classic mesoamerican period

Citation

Created by Indigenous Mexica artists for the Spanish Crown, “Codex Mendoza
Códice Mendocino,” Omeka, accessed February 6, 2026, https://omeka.ischool.utoronto.ca/items/show/426.

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