Codex Sierra Texupan, Codice Sierra Fragmento de una Nomina de Gastos del Pueblo de Santa Catarina Texupan

Nicolas Leon

 Poulat Litografio; Museo National, 1906

Folio, 33.5 x 24 cm.  Loose, as issued, in publisher's green cloth chemise in slip case. Very good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Rare color facsimile. "The Codex Sierra Texupan is a sixty-two-page libro de cuentas, or book of community accounts, that combines Nahuatl-language writing with a parallel pictorial component. Indigenous writers and artists in the Mixteca Alta region of the modern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, compiled the book over a fifteen-year period from 1550 to 1564." (Kevin Terraciano, Parallel Nahuatl and Pictorial Texts in the Mixtec Codex Sierra Texupan, Ethnohistory, 2015, Volume 62, Number 3: 497-524).