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The Codex Borgia: A Full-Color Restoration of the Ancient Mexican Manuscript (Dover Fine Art, History of Art) Paperback – June 22, 1993

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The Codex Borgia: A Full-Color Restoration of the Ancient Mexican Manuscript

art, art history, fine art, Codex Borgia, Mexico, Native American History, Aztec, Central America

art, art history, fine art, Codex Borgia, Mexico, Native American History, Aztec, Central America

art, art history, fine art, Codex Borgia, Mexico, Native American History, Aztec, Central America

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Plate 28: The Five Directions with Rain Deities and the First Five Years of a 52-year Calendar Cycle.

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Considered by many scholars the finest extant Mexican codex and one of the most important original sources for the study of pre-Columbian religion, the Codex Borgia is a work of profound beauty, filled with strange and evocative images related to calendrical, cosmological, ritual, and divinatory matters. Generally similar to such Mixtec manuscripts as the Codex Nuttall, the Codex Borgia is thought to have its origin (ca. A.D. 1400) in the southern central highlands of Mexico, perhaps in Puebla or Oaxaca. It is most probably a religious document that once belonged to a temple or sacred shrine.
One use of the
Codex many have been to divine the future, for it includes ritual 260 day calendars, material on aspects of the planet Venus, and a sort of numerological prognostic of the lives of wedded couples. Another section concerns various regions of the world and the supernatural characters and attributes of those regions. Also described are the characteristics of a number of deities, while still other passages relate to installation ceremonies of rulers in pre-Columbian kingdoms.
Until the publication of this Dover edition, the
Codex Borgia has been largely inaccessible to the general public. The priceless original is in the Vatican Library and previous photographic facsimiles are very rare or very expensive or both. Moreover, the original Codex has been damaged over the centuries, resulting in the obscuration and loss of many images. In order to recapture the beauty and grandeur of the original, Gisele Diaz and Alan Rodgers have painstakingly restored the Codex by hand—a seven-year project—employing the most scrupulous research and restoration techniques. The result is 76 large full-color plates of vibrant, striking depictions of gods, kings, warriors, mythical creatures, and mysterious abstract designs—a vivid panorama that offers profound insights into pre-Columbian Mexican myth and ritual. Now students, anthropologists, lovers of fine art and rare books— anyone interested in the art and culture of ancient Mexico—can study the Codex Borgia in this inexpensive, accurate, well-made edition. An informative introduction by noted anthropologist Bruce E. Byland places the Codex in its historical context and helps elucidate its meaning and significance.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dover Publications; First Edition (June 22, 1993)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 112 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0486275698
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0486275697
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9 x 0.5 x 12 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 out of 5 stars 733

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Born August 11, 1959 in Montclair, NJ Died March 8, 2014 in Anaheim, CA

Rodgers was a science fiction and horror writer, editor and poet.

In the early eighties he was Associate Editor for Rod Serling's Twilight Zone Magazine(1984-1987). Soon after he initiated another project as the Editor of the spin-off horror digest Night Cry(1985-1987). His stories have been published in a number of venues including Weird Tales, Twilight Zone and a number of anthologies such as Darker Masques, Prom Night and Vengeance Fantastic.

He began publishing fantasy with Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Form Fiction winner and World Fantasy Award nominee the novelette "The Boy Who Came Back From the Dead"(1987). His debut horror novel "Blood of the Children"(1989) was a Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best First Horror Novel. Other novels to follow were "Fire"(1990), "Night"(1991), "Pandora"(1995), Stoker Award nominee "Bone Music"(1995), "The Bear Who Found Christmas"(2000) and "Her Misbegotten Son"(2000).

Rodgers is also known for such works as "Alien Love", "The River of Our Destiny", "Angel of Our Mercy" and "Light"

There were two collections of his fiction, "New Life For the Dead"(1992) and "Ghosts Who Cannot Sleep"(2000).

He is survived by his three children, Andrea, Alexandra and Abram and his three siblings, Jyaphia, Laurie and Scott as well as his long term romantic interest fiction author Amy Sterling Casil.

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Erick México
5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente artículo, gran calidad de imágenes.
Reviewed in Mexico on May 15, 2021
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente artículo, gran calidad de imágenes.
Reviewed in Mexico on May 15, 2021
Hola, escribo está reseña para las personas que buscan información acerca de cómo es el artículo y estén seguros de que es lo que buscan. Este artículo tiene gran valor por la calidad de las imágenes ya que a modo de Facsimilar todas las imágenes están reconstruidas por lo cual están definidas y tienen colores vivos, a diferencia de otros que las imágenes son fotografías del original y por más que uno trate de ver el detalle tienes que terminar consultando libros de este tipo por lo cual es una gran ventaja, otra característica es que literal tiene el formato y la calidad de una buena revista de cualquier supermercado lo que la hace accesible al bolsillo pero si fuese un trabajo de pasta dura de materiales de lujo estaría estupendo no por ello pierde su calidad las hojas son de un terminado brillante y se ve genial, contiene al principio una pequeña reseña del significado del códice pero viene en inglés por lo cual hay que tener conocimiento de la lengua o utilizar un traductor lo cual ya no es problema en estos tiempos de la tecnología, y por último de verdad que para los que buscamos este tipo de información y de calidad de imágenes no es nada fácil es 100 % recomendable yo quedé más que satisfecho es un gran libro por lo que representa y es de gran valor como material de estudio o trabajo para los que se dedican al tema definitivamente no se arrepentirán de adquirirlo.
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