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20: 236: 176: 212: 344: 260: 248: 224: 320: 356: 380: 332: 296: 368: 308: 272: 284: 81:. Some letters exchanged between Acosta and Tovar, explaining the history of the manuscript, are present in the volume. It seems that Tovar, who arrived in New Spain in 1573, had been commissioned by the Jesuit order to prepare a history of the Aztec kingdom based on credited indigenous sources; however, his lack of familiarity with the pictographic and hieroglyphic writing system of the Aztec impaired his work considerably. Hence, Tovar met with Aztec historians and manuscript painters ( 200: 188: 667:. Salvador Rueda Smithers, Constanza Vega Sosa, Rodrigo Martínez Baracs, Simposio de Códices y Documentos sobre México (1 ed.). México, D.F.: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Dirección de Estudios Históricos. pp. 163–178. 408:
is lost. The manuscript has been published in different occasions: the calendrical section by Kubler and Gibson, and a transcription and a French translation of the whole, along with the plates of the historical section only, by Jacques Lafaye.
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circa 1837. Phillips attempted to publish the manuscript, but he was only able to publish 23 pages of the manuscript in an incomplete edition, which is exceedingly rare. In 1946, the manuscript was sold in an auction to the
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Some scholars consider that Tovar derived both of his works from Durán, given the similarities among them, while others hypothesize that both come from the same group of pictographic Aztec documents, now lost.
343: 100:, but failed to procure for himself good manuscripts. Having failed in his task and having left New Spain, he reached out to his colleague Tovar, who was already advanced in the preparation of the 211: 259: 247: 223: 319: 355: 379: 367: 331: 295: 85:) to transform these pictoglyphic sources into an account more acceptable to the Western historical tradition. The first result of Tovar's historical research was the 108:, who at the time requested historical works on his American domains to be prepared: hence, the Ramírez Codex remained in Mexico, where it was later re-found, and the 471: 442:. Robert Wauchope, Howard Francis Cline, Charles Gibson, H. B. Nicholson, Tulane University. Middle American Research Institute. Austin. 2015. pp. 225–226. 19: 307: 139:. The contents and illustrations of the first and the historical part are noticeably close not only to the Ramírez Codex, but also to the work of 112:
was sent to Spain, where Acosta used the valuable information from the manuscript to write the section on Aztec history in his more general work
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The Tovar Codex was created between 1587 and 1588 by the Jesuit historian Juan de Tovar, who worked under the auspices of the historian
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The Manuscript can be divided in four sections. The first is the epistolary exchange between Acosta and Tovar. The second is the
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Handbook of Middle American Indians. Volume fourteen, volume fifteen, Guide to ethnohistorical sources
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History of the arrival of the Indians to populate Mexico from the remote regions of the West
40: 714:. Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts & Sciences, v. 11. New Haven: The Academy. 593:. Jesús. Monjarás-Ruiz, Elena Limón, Maricruz Paillés H. (1 ed.). México, D.F.: INAH. 187: 50:
Historia de la benida de los Yndios a poblar a Mexico de las partes remotas de Occidente
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Later, in 1583, the Jesuit historian and naturalist José de Acosta arrived in
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Manuscrit Tovar : origines et croyances des indiens du Mexique ...
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During the XIX century, the manuscript left Spain, being bought by Sir
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Tena, Rafael (1997). "Revisión de la hipótesis sobre la Crónica X".
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Jacques Lafaye. Graz: Akademische Druck u. Verlagsanstalt. 1972.
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Tovar, Juan de (1951). Kubler, George; Gibson, Charles (eds.).
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The Tovar calendar; an illustrated Mexican manuscript ca. 1585
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or history proper. The third is a treatise on Aztec religion (
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John Carter Brown Library's Codex Tovar at Internet Archive
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Códices y documentos sobre México : segundo simposio
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The sorcerers received the water of the Cuextecatl spring
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to derive from an earlier, lost work, labelled by him as
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Tovar, Juan de (1860). Thomas Phillipps, Bart (ed.).
181:Chicomoztoc, the seven caves of origin at Aztlan 147:. This group of works have been hypothesized by 35:(JCB Manuscripts Codex Ind 2) is a historical 152: 130: 124: 113: 48: 8: 512:"Historia y Misterios del Manuscrito Tovar" 519:Revista Digital Sociedad de la Información 470:: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( 39:from the late 16th century written by the 496:. Cheltenham: Jacobus Rogers. p. 2. 241:Huitzilihuitl, the second Aztec tlatoani 18: 429: 171: 688: 565: 463: 301:An Aztec noble sacrifices his own life 253:Chimalpopoca, the third Aztec tlatoani 229:Acamapichtli, the first Aztec tlatoani 115:Historia natural y moral de las Indias 349:Axayacatl, the seventh Aztec Tlatoani 7: 534: 532: 505: 503: 487: 485: 325:Moctezuma, the fifth Aztec tlatoani 265:Itzcoatl, the fourth Aztec tlatoani 361:Ahuizotl, the ninth Aztec tlatoani 16:Historical Mesoamerican manuscript 14: 385:Moctezuma, the last Aztec emperor 337:Tizoc, the seventh Aztec tlatoani 43:Juan de Tovar and illustrated by 494:Historia de los yndios mexicanos 378: 366: 354: 342: 330: 318: 306: 294: 282: 270: 258: 246: 234: 222: 210: 198: 186: 174: 590:Los mexicas y la Triple Alianza 69:, Rhode Island, United States. 313:The funerary rites of Ahuizotl 165:The historical section of the 61:. 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Index

The Spanish caption reads: "The prickly pear and the eagle that they found in the lake"
Mesoamerican manuscript
Jesuit
Aztec
Ramírez Codex
John Carter Brown Library
Providence
José de Acosta
Ramírez Codex
New Spain
Aztec
Philip II of Spain
dominical letters
Diego Durán
Fernando Alvarado Tezozomoc
R. H. Barlow
Chicomoztoc, the seven caves of origin at Aztlan
Tollan
The battle at Chapultepec
The founding of Tenochtitlan
Acamapichtli, the first Aztec tlatoani
Huitzilihuitl, the second Aztec tlatoani
Chimalpopoca, the third Aztec tlatoani
Itzcoatl, the fourth Aztec tlatoani
The battle of Azcapotzalco
The war against Coyoacan
An Aztec noble sacrifices his own life
The funerary rites of Ahuizotl
Moctezuma, the fifth Aztec tlatoani
Tizoc, the seventh Aztec tlatoani

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