Codices of Mexico and Their Extraordinary History - Softcover

Sten, Maria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9683801021 ISBN 13: 9789683801029

Publisher: Panorama, 1990

Synopsis

The Mexican Codices constitute one of the principal legacies of the indigenous cultures that enable us to penetrate their lives, beliefs, customs and history. From a point of view both didactic and readable, though for this no less documented nor remote from scientific and historic fact, Maria Sen has traced the vicissitudes and adventures of their discoverers, and their final destiny as museum or library pieces of inestimable value. Few "painted books" remain in the world, and the majority are outside Mexico and not easily accessible. In this book an attempt is made to recover something of what they should mean to the reader; text and pictures combine to relate for us some of the stories presented in them and to place them in their context of high universal value.

Edition details

• Publisher: Panorama
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9683801021
• ISBN 13: 9789683801029
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 131