codices
Americannoun
noun
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A symbol of status, carmine red was already employed by the nobility of Mexico’s Indigenous peoples to dye garments, and widely used in the arts, to write codices, decorate ceramics and paint murals.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 1, 2023
They also used codices, book-like records drawn on bark paper that combined both images and pictograms.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
After the arrival of the Spanish in the early 16th century, colonizers destroyed countless codices as well as the Maya glyph system, and the long-term, quantitative sky tracking it enabled.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 1, 2022
Some of the greatest works in global art history are books: Mayan codices, Persian manuscripts, Ireland’s Book of Kells.
From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2014
No fewer than four of the codices treat the story of 8-Deer Jaguar Claw, a wily priest-general-politician with a tragic love for the wife of his greatest enemy.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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