Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: los meses.
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Accession number:
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30289
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Record number:
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30289-114
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JCB call number:
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Codex Ind 2
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Image title:
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los meses.
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Place image published:
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[Mexico]
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Image date:
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[ca. 1585]
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Image function:
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plate; recto leaf 144
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Technique:
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painting
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Image dimension height:
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19.7 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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9.9 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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21 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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15.2 cm.
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Materials medium:
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watercolor
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Materials support:
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paper
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Languages:
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Spanish
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Description:
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Aztec month, showing the name of each day of the month. At the top is an image of a priest with a quetzal plume at his feet and a crown and calendar wheel [?] in the background.
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Source creator:
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Tovar, Juan de, ca. 1546-ca. 1626
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Source Title:
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Historia de la benida de los yndios apoblar a Mexico de las partes remotas de Occidente los sucessos y perigrinaçiones del camino su gouierno, ydolos y templos dellos, ritos y cirimonias ... calandarios delos tiempos
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Source place of publication:
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Mexico
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Source date:
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ca. 1585
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notes:
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The Aztecs used two calendars to compute the days of the year. The first (or solar) calendar (xiuhpohualli) consisted of 365 days, divided into eighteen months of twenty units each, plus an additional period of five empty days at the end of the year. The second calendar (tonalpohualli or "day count") was made up of 260 days, combinations of 13 numbers and twenty symbols. Every 52 years both calendars would align. The image probably indicates that the month shown is that of the seventh month, Tecuilhuitontli (small feast of the lords). This image shows the names of each day of the month. The Tovar manuscript is divided into three sections. This third section of the manuscript contains the Tovar calendar which records a continuous Mexican calendar with months, weeks, days, dominical letters, and church festivals of a Christian 365-day year.
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Time Period:
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1492-1600
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References:
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Lafaye, J. Manuscript Tovar, p. 298; Durán, D. The Aztecs, p. 338
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired from the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps in 1946.
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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Commentary:
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geographic area:
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Spanish America
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Subject Area:
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Indigenous peoples
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Subject headings:
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Mexico--History--To 1519
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Subject headings:
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Indians of Mexico
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Subject headings:
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Aztec calendar
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