Legend of the Suns
Artista: No identificado
Siglo XVI · México
Colección: Códice Leyenda de los Soles
The image displays a page from the 'Leyenda de los Soles' (Legend of the Suns), a 16th-century Nahuatl manuscript. The handwritten text in ink details the cosmogony and history of the Nahua peoples. Its calligraphic style and the materiality of the paper reveal the importance of this document as a primary source for the study of pre-Hispanic culture.
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