Codex Cospi
Illustration — A page from the codex 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 other manuscripts in the Codex Borgia, the Codex Cospi is believed to derive from the Puebla-Tlaxcala region but the exact origin of the manuscript is unknown.
Codex Cospi
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- Date
- 1500
- Material
- deer skin
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Illustration — A page from the codex 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 other manuscripts in the Codex Borgia, the Codex Cospi is believed to derive from the Puebla-Tlaxcala region but the exact origin of the manuscript is unknown.
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Materials recorded for it include deer skin. The record gives 1500 as its date of establishment or first appearance. Catalogue entries for manuscript material state script, support, extent and condition. VALÉORINE records this subject so that lots referring to it can be described consistently.
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1500
Codex Cospi created.
1500
Codex Cospi is recorded from 1500.
1900
Codex Cospi (1900) is digitised and catalogued by Open Library.
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