Boturini codex

The Codex Boturini , also called Tira from Peregrinación is a indigenous codex of central Mexico. It holds its first name of a famous collector of the XVIIe century, Lorenzo Boturini. Currently preserved at the National library of Anthropology and History of Mexico City, this manuscript consists of a long sheet of paper amatl of 19,8 X 549 cm, folded in accordion in order to form 21 pages and half. It is about a historical work of the beginning of the colonial period, which describes, as its second name indicates it, peregrinations of the Aztèques/Mexica since their mythical place of origin Aztlan. In fact, the manuscript does not tell all the history of the Aztec migration to the foundation of Tenochtitlan; it stops abruptly at the time when the Aztec ones became the vassal ones of Cocox, the lord of Culhuacan.

The Boturini Codex was probably carried out in Tenochtitlan. The European style of a tree constitutes the argument generally called upon by the specialists to locate this realization at the beginning of the colonial period. The invoice of the manuscript is very readable: traces of feet indicate the direction of the account; the images are painted in black features on white zone, except notable for the red features, which connect between them the glyphes indicating the dates which shell the migration.

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