Borgia Group

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The Borgia Group is the designation given by scholars to a number of mostly pre-Columbian documents from central Mexico. They are distinguished by their religious content, while the codices of the Mixtec group are principally historical. The origin of the codices has been a matter of debate, with their creators being described as Aztecs, Mixtecs, or "Tolteca-Chichimeca".

Included in the Borgia Group are:

• The Codex Borgia, after which the group is named. The codex is itself named after Cardinal Stefano Borgia, who owned it before it was acquired by the Vatican Library.
• The Codex Cospi.
• The Codex Fejérváry-Mayer.
• The Codex Laud.
• The Codex Vaticanus B.
• The Aubin Manuscript No. 20, or Fonds mexicain 20.
• The Codex Porfirio Díaz, the only non-pre-Columbian member of the group.

[edit] External links

• GBonline | Borgia Group of Codices
• John Pohl's Mesoamerica — Borgia Group Codices
• Realms of the Sacred in Daily Life: Early Written Records of Mesoamerica — Borgia Group