Note 646 — Chapter XVII · THE AZTEC PICTURE-WRITING.
Reading edition
See Mexican MSS., in the list of authorities in vol. i. of this work, for the location of this and other codices in Kingsborough's work. This codex was published also in Purchas his Pilgrimes, vol. iv.; Thevenot, Col. de Voy., 1696, tom. ii.; and by Lorenzana, in Cortés, Hist. N. España. 'D'après les recherches que j'ai faites, il paroît qu'il n'existe aujourd'hui en Europe que six collections de peintures mexicaines: celles de l'Escurial, de Bologne, de Veletri, de Rome, de Vienne et de Berlin.' Humboldt, Vues, tom. i., p. 215. See also on the Codex Mendoza: Id., tom. ii., pp. 306-22; Robertson's Hist. Amer., (Lond., 1777), vol. ii., p. 480; Prescott's Mex., vol. i., pp. 40, 103-4; Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. i., pp. 22-3, 25; Gallatin, in Amer. Ethno. Soc., Transact., vol. i., pp. 116-29; Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. vi., p. 299.