Codex Zouche-Nuttall | |
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Material | Animal skin |
Size | 11.35 metres in length |
Created | 14th-15th Centuries AD |
Present location | British Museum, London |
Registration | Add MS 39671 |
The Codex Zouche-Nuttall or Codex Tonindeye is an accordion-folded pre-Columbian document of Mixtec pictography, now in the collections of the British Museum. It is one of about 16 manuscripts from Mexico that are entirely pre-Columbian in origin. The codex derives its name from Zelia Nuttall, who first published it in 1902, and Baroness Zouche, its donor.[1][2]