Codices of Mexico and Their Extraordinary History by Maria Sten

Sten, Maria und Carolyn B. Czitrom:

ISBN 10: 9683801021 / ISBN 13: 9789683801029

Published by Ediciones Lara, S.A., 1978

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136 S. Innen wie außen ein gutes Exemplar. Die Leseseiten sind sauber und ohne Anstreichungen. Guter Zustand. 9789683801029 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 68.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Codices of Mexico and Their Extraordinary History by Maria Sten
• Publisher: Ediciones Lara, S.A.
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9683801021
• ISBN 13: 9789683801029
• Binding: Soft cover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Kunst & Kunstgeschichte

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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.