Libro Del Messico, Donato Dal Sig. Co. Valerio Zani Al Sig. March. Cospi Il Di 26 Dic. 1665 Pubblicazione: [graz - Akademische Druck-u Verlagsanstalt, 1968] Descrizione fisica: 1 facs. : in gran parte ill. - Karl-Anton Nowotny
Akademische Druck-u Verlagsanstalt (1968)
In Collection
#6257

Read It:
Yes

The Codex Cospi (or Codex Bologna) is a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican pictorial manuscript, included in the Borgia Group. It is currently located in the library of the University of Bologna.

Like the Codex Borgia, the Codex Cospi is believed to derive from the Puebla-Tlaxcala region. If the Codex Borgia is specifically from the Tehuacan valley (in Puebla), then the Codex Cospi may, in contrast, be from Tlaxcallan. As Eduard Seler remarked,[1] the depictions in the Codex Cospi resemble those in "comic books" : this may characterize the political situation (regarded as farcical and comical) wherein Tlaxcallan, although completely encircled by the Aztec empire, was deliberately not incorporated into it in order to exemplify the magnanimity of the Aztec rulers.

The Codex Cospi has many close specific resemblances in content to Codex Borgia, most notably both codices' beginning with a sequence of 104 scenes (Cospi, pp. 1-8 = Borgia, pp. 1-8). Another resemblance is the Codex Cospi god having "two knives as a head":[2]: this is equivalent to double-knife-headed god central to Codex Borgia, p.32.

Product Details