Codex Rios
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Codex Rios is an Italian translation and augmentation of a Spanish colonial-era manuscript, Codex Telleriano-Remensis, that is partially attributed to Pedro de los Ríos, a Dominican friar working in Oaxaca and Puebla between 1547 and 1562. The codex itself was likely written and drawn in Italy after 1566.
The manuscript is focused on the Tolteca-Chichimeca culture in the Tehuacan Valley in modern-day Puebla and Oaxaca. It can be divided into seven sections:
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- Cosmogological and mythological traditions with emphasis on the four epochs.
- An almanac, or tonalamatl, for the 260-day divinatory year common in Mesoamerica.
- Calendar tables for the years 1558 through 1619, without drawings.
- An 18-month festival calendar, with drawings of the gods of each period.
- Ritual customs, with portraits of Indians.
- Pictorial chronicles for the years 1195-1549 beginning with the migration from Chicomoztoc and covering later events in the Valley of Mexico.
- Glyphs for the years 1556 through 1562, without drawings or text.
Codex Rios consists of 101 pages of European paper, accordion-folded. It is held in the Vatican Library, Rome and is also variously known as Codex Vatican A, Codex Vaticanus A, and Codex Vaticanus 3738.
