Codex Cozcatzin

      Description: Postconquest codex of 18 sheets (36 pages) containing historical, genealogical, and astronomical information. Glosses in Spanish and Nahuatl on European paper. 

Date: last third of the XVIth century

Provenience: Tlaltelolco

Present Location: Biblioteque National de Paris, Manuscrits Mexicains 41-45.

Organization: 

  • ff. 3r-10v - list of parcels given by Itzcoatl in 1439 to various followers.
  • ff. 10, 11, 13, 14r - leaders of Tlaltelolco and Tenochtitlan
  • ff. 14v-15r, 18r - conquest of Tlaltelolco
  • ff. 15r-16v - plan of plots in Xochimilco and a genealogy
  • ff. 16v, 17r, 17v - glyphs of Tenochtitlan, Culhuacan, Iztapalapa, Mexicatzinco, Itzacalco
  • ff. 18v - a description in Spanish of certain planets and stars

Related texts: Codex de Ixhuatepec, Titulos de Santa Isabel Tola

References: Valero de Garcia Lascurain (1994)