The Mesoamerican codex re-entangled : production, use, and re-use of precolonial documents

Snijders, L.

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Snijders, L. (2016)

The Mesoamerican codex re-entangled : production, use, and re-use of precolonial documents

Doctoral Thesis

This work is focussed on the precolonial Mesoamerican codices. Less than twenty of these rare books still exist today. The main questions are how were these objects made, and for what were they used. The author also looked at why so few of these books remain today and how they have been reproduced in more recent times. One special aspect of this research was the investigation of one specific book, the codex Añute, held at the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford. This book is a known palimpsest. By understanding its physical composition, new techniques could be developed to investigate this palimpsest and recover new pictographic texts from underneath the surfaces.