Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Arch. Selden. A. 2

Source

Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)

Library

Oxford. Bodleian Library

Shelfmark

• Bodleian Library MS. Arch. Selden. A. 2

Biblissima authority file

• https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q212688

Date

• shortly after 1556

Title

• The 'Codex Selden' (also known as 'Codex Añute').

Description

• A screenfold of Mixtec origin, pre-Conquest in style, recording the genealogies and history from A.D. 783 to A.D. 1556 of the rulers of a place called 'Cloud Belching Mountain', identifiable as Añute (Jaltepec) in the Mixtec Alta (Oaxaca, Mexico). Similar to MS. Mex. d. 1. Mexican picture-writing. It is read starting at the bottom and winding upward in boustrophedon. Descriptions taken from A. Caso, Interpretacion del Codice Selden 3135 (A.2), Mexico, 1964. M and F have been added prior to names to differentiate between male and female figures.

Place

• Preferred form

  • Mexico

  Original form

  • Mexico

  Biblissima portal

  • https://portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/43093/ldataf129d05aa500c9aa5c7682315c821a5a756d715f

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q27012

• Preferred form

  • Mixtec Highlands

  Original form

  • Mixtec Highlands, Añute (Jaltepec)

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q84031

Rights

• Photo: © Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. Terms of use: CC-BY-NC 4.0. For more information, please see http://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/terms.html. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Illumination (from 35mm)

Digitisation

• https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/5fb5517b-0539-4531-b996-44fa52ede044

Manifest URL

• https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/manifest/5fb5517b-0539-4531-b996-44fa52ede044.json

Related

• https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manuscript_8835