THE CODEX BORGIA
The Codex Borgia known as Codex Borgianus or Manuscript Velletri, belonged to the Museum of Cardinal Stefano Borgia in Rome (the codex take the name from the cardinal) and is presently preserved at the Vatican Library.
The Codex Borgia is one of the most beautiful of the few surviving pre-Columbian painted manuscripts.
Is a ritual and divinatory manuscript, and it was written possibly in the zone of Puebla-Tlaxcala-Cholula. The codex made on deer leather, with a coat of stucco.
It’s folded as a folding screen of 39 sheet or 78 pages (27 cm. x 26.50 cm. every page approximately) and reaches more than 10 m. when is unfolded.
The codex has been painted in both sides of each sheets, with the exception of the first and the last page (76 pages painted pages).
The contents of the manuscript to describe the indigenous calendar (260 days) or the ritual cycle and predictive, connecting the different names of days, deities and rituals with a favourable destiny depend of the birthday, names... Was used by palace diviners and curers as a means of invoking the prophecies of the gods.
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