Calendar wheel
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- Created Date
- 1780/1831
- Description
Pictorial ms. of a calendar wheel, depicting the thirteen fundamental numerals of the divinatory calendar and the four signs for the beginning of a year: acatl, tecpatl, calli, and tochtli, a combination which allowed 52 beginnings of the year. A complete cycle of 52 years made up what is sometimes called the Mexican century. Glass (HMAI, vol. 14, p. 300, 309) believes the calendar wheel to be a falsified pictorial manuscript. Also at the Newberr...
- Contributing Institution
- Newberry Library
- Location
- Mexico
- Type
- image
- Format
- Manuscripts (Documents)Art (Fine art)
- Language
- Nahuatl
- Rights
- The Newberry makes its collections available for any lawful purpose, commercial or non-commercial, without licensing or permission fees to the library, subject to the following terms and conditions: https://www.newberry.org/rights-and-reproductions
- Chicago citation style
- Calendar wheel. 1780/1831. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/nby_eeayer/id/22655. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- (1780/1831) Calendar wheel. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/nby_eeayer/id/22655
- MLA citation style
- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/nby_eeayer/id/22655>.