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Antiquities of Mexico (1831–48) (publicdomainreview.org)
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the scale of Kingsborough’s project was enormous — nine volumes (with a tenth planned but never completed), collectively weighing in at nearly 30 kg and featuring lush color facsimiles of Mexican pictorial manuscripts. The series of books, whose content ran the gamut — from Mayan astrological tables and Mixtec genealogies, to agricultural records and religious rites — faithfully reproduced virtually all pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican books in European collections at the time.

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[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 1 points 5 minutes ago

Great article and it's great to see all these images from the manuscripts in one place.

[–] GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 hours ago

Excellent share, thank you.