The following pages are intended as a basic introduction to the codices of highland mexico. On its north, mexico shares a 3,326kilometer border with the united states. If genuine, it is one of only four known extant maya codices, and the only one that. The hidden codes of the codex azcatitlan latin american studies. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. Codex bodley reached oxfords bodleian library around the year 1604, and prior provenance of the manuscript is unknown. Famsi john pohls ancient books highland mexico codices. Codices y documentos sobre mexico 1997 edition open. Pdf codices y escrituras del mexico antiguo galina. The maya codex of mexico mcm is a maya screenfold manuscript of a precolumbian type but of disputed authenticity. Ancient books all rare collections of codices maya codices singular codex are folding books stemming from the precolumbian maya civilization, written in maya hieroglyphic script on mesoamerican bark cloth, made from the inner bark of certain trees, the main being the wild fig tree or amate ficus glabrata. Later colonial codices influenced by the spanish depict chronicles of native mexicans with latin script either in nahuatl or in spanish.