Book/Printed Material Antiquities of Mexico

Title

• Antiquities of Mexico : comprising fac-similes of ancient Mexican paintings and hieroglyphics, preserved in the royal libraries of Paris, Berlin and Dresden, in the Imperial library of Vienna, in the Vatican library, in the Borgian museum at Rome, in the library of the Institute at Bologna, and in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, together with The monuments of New Spain by M. Dupaix, with their respective scales of measurement and accompanying descriptions

Names

• Kingsborough, Edward King, Viscount, 1795-1837
• Aglio, Agostino, 1777-1857, artist
• Dupaix, Guillermo
• Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo, 1478-1557
• Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547
• Bernardino, de Sahagún, 1499-1590
• Simón, Pedro, 1565-
• Alvarado Tezozómoc, Fernando, active 1598
• Alva Ixtlilxóchitl, Fernando de, 1578-1650
• Adair, James, approximately 1709-1783
• Veytia, Mariano, 1718-1780?
• Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

• London : Published by Robert Havell, 77, Oxford Street; and Colnaghi, Son, and Co. Pall Mall East : Printed by James Moyes, Castle Street, Leicester Square, 1831-1848.

Contents

• 1. Copy of the Collection of Mendoza, Bodleian Library, 73 p. -- Copy of the Codex Telleriano-Remensis, Royal Library at Paris, 93 p. -- Facsimile of a Mexican hieroglyphic painting from the collection of Boturini, 23 p. -- Facsimile of an original Mexican painting, collection of Sir Thomas Bodley, Bodleian Library, 40 p. -- Facsimile of an original Mexican painting, Selden Collection of Mss. in the Bodleian Library, 20 p. -- Facsimile of an original Mexican hieroglyphic painting, Selden Collection, 1 roll. -- 2. Copy of a Mexican ms. in the Vatican Library, 149 p. -- Facsimile of an original Mexican painting given to Oxford University by Archbishop Laud, Bodleian Library, 46 p. -- Fac-simile of an original Mexican painting preserved in the library of the Institute at Bologna, 24 p. -- Facsimile of an original Mexican painting, Imperial Library at Vienna, 66 p. -- Facsimiles of original Mexican paintings deposited in the Royal Library at Berlin by Baron De Humboldt, and of a Mexican bas-relief, Royal Cabinet of Antiques --
• 3. Facsimile of an original Mexican painting, Borgian Museum, College of Propaganda, Rome, 76 p. -- Facsimile of an original Mexican painting, Royal Library at Dresden, 74 p. -- Facsimile of an original Mexican painting in the possession of M. De Féjérvary, at Pess, Hungary, 44 p. -- Facsimile of an original Mexican painting, Vatican Library, 96 p. -- 4. Monuments of New Spain, by M. Dupaix, from the original drawings [black and white lithographs] executed by order of the King of Spain; in three parts -- Specimens of Mexican sculpture in the possession of M. Latour Allard, Paris -- Specimens of Mexican sculpture, British Museum -- Plates copied from the Giro del Mondo of Gemelli Careri, with an engraving of a Mexican cycle from a painting formerly in the possession of Boturini -- Specimen of Peruvian Quipus --
• 5. Extrait de l'ouvrage de M. De Humboldt sur les monumens de l'Amérique (p. [1]) -- Esplicacion de la colección de Mendoza (p. [37]) -- Explicación del Codex Telleriano-Remensis (p. [127]) -- Codice mexicano, che si conserva nella Biblioteca Vaticana, al No. 3738 MS. (p. [159]) -- Viages de Guillelmo Dupaix sobre la antiguedades mejicanas (p. [207]) -- Libro sexto de la retórica y filosofia, moral y teologia, de la gente mexicana / Frayle Bernardino de Sahagún (p. [345]). -- 6. Appendix: [Kingsborough's] Interpretation of the hieroglyphical paintings of the Collection of Mendoza -- Explanation of the hieroglyphical paintings of the Codex Telleriano-Remensis -- Translation of the explanation of the Mexican paintings of the Codex Vaticanus [incl. copious notes] -- The Monuments of New Spain / by M. Dupaix [translation of Viages de Guillelmo Dupaix] (p. 421) -- Notes --
• 7. Historia universal de las cosas de Nueva España / por Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún. -- 8. Supplementary notes -- Supplementary extracts from Spanish authors: [excerpts from] La Monarquía Indiana de Torquemada [on Indian customs and practices, with notes in English] -- [excerpts from] Sobre el origen de los Indios / Garcia -- Historia del origen de las gentes que poblaron la America septentrional / Mariano Fernández de Echevarría y Veitia (p. [159]) -- Tercera [y cuarta] noticia[s] de la segunda parte de las Noticias historiales de las conquistas de Tierra Firme / Fr. Pedro Simon (p. [219]) -- History of the North American Indians, their customs, &c. / James Adair (p. [273]) -- Cartas inéditas de Hernando Cortés (p. [401]) -- Relaciones inéditas de Fernández de Oviedo (p. [419]) --
• 9. Crónica Mexicana de Fernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc (p. [1]) -- Historia Chichimeca por Don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl (p. [197]) -- Relaciones de Don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl (p. [317]) -- Ritos antiguos, sacrificios e idolatrias de los Indios de la Nueva España y de su conversión à la fée y quienes fueron los que primero la predicaron (p. [1]-60 at end).

Headings

• -  Boturini Benaducci, Lorenzo,--1702-1751--Art collections
• -  Biblioteca apostolica vaticana
• -  Bibliothèque nationale (France)
• -  Bodleian Library
• -  Königliche Bibliothek zu Berlin
• -  Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
• -  Università di Bologna.--Biblioteca
• -  Codex Fejérváry-Mayer
• -  Codex Ríos
• -  Codex Telleriano-Remensis
• -  Codex Vaticanus
• -  Códice Cospi
• -  Manuscripts, Nahuatl--Facsimiles
• -  Ethnology--Mexico
• -  Nahuatl language
• -  Nahuatl literature
• -  Indians of Mexico
• -  Mexico--Antiquities
• -  Mexico--History--To 1519
• -  Mexico--History--Conquest, 1519-1540
• -  England--London

Genre

• Lithographs--England--London--1830-1850
• Facsimiles

Notes

• -  Vols. 6 and 7 were "printed by Richard and John E. Taylor, 1831." Vols. 8 and 9 have imprint: Published by Henry G. Bohn ... : Printed by Richard and Joh E. Taylor ..., 1848.
• -  "In seven volumes"--Vols. 1-7, t.p. "In nine volumes"--Vols. 8 and 9, t.p.
• -  At end of v. 9: "Ritos antiquos, sacrificios é idolatrías de los Indios de la Nueva España ..." (60 p.). Section paged separately and designated in footers as "Vol. X"; however, text ends (p. 60) with: "End of Vol. IX which concludes the work."
• -  LC copy quarter bound in green morocco over marbled paper boards. Raised bands and gold tooling on spine. Upper edges gilt.
• -  Brunet vol. 3, col. 663
• -  Graesse vol. 4, p. 19
• -  Sabin, vol. 9, p. 484-485, item 37800
• -  Texts in English, Spanish, French and Italian.
• -  LC copy has heraldic bookplate: coat of arms with double-headed eagles and battlements, under a crown and double-headed eagle, a man on the left, wearing only laurels, a lion on the right, with crenellated shading, and legend: Dominus providebit. Gift of the Jay I. Kislak Foundation, with "Ex libris Jay I. Kislak."
• -  Kislak accession no.: 1988.007.00.0001 (F1219.K52 1831 Copy 1, v. I-III, V)
• -  Kislak accession no.: 1991.003.00.0001 (F1219.K52 1831 Copy 1, v. IV, VI-VIII)
• -  Kislak accession no.: 1985.007.00.0001 (F1219.K52 1831 Copy 2, v. I-III, V)
• -  Kislak accession no.: 1991.003.00.0001 (F1219.K52 1831 Copy 2, v. IV, VI-IX)
• -  F1219.K52 1831 Copy 1 v. I-VIII withdrawn 2008-02-27 and returned to Jay I. Kislak per his request. Replaced by F1219.K52 1831 Copy 2 v. I-IX. vj01 2008-02-28

Medium

• 9 v. : ill., facsims. (most col.) ; 55 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

• F1219 .K52 1831

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/Kislak.2006566784v04

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2006566784

Online Format

• pdf
• image

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• https://lccn.loc.gov/2006566784

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