Census of Mesoamerican pictorial

[John F. Schwaller]

From: "Michel Michel" <mroudyk at hotmail.com>
Subject: Census of Mesoamerican pictorial

Dear colleagues,

Much to my surprise did I receive a message by 
Walter Koenig in which he expresses the lack of a 
"comprehensive listing of codices". Of course, 
such a list does exist. The famous Handbook of 
Middel American Indians, Vol. 14 contains exactly 
that: a Census of Native Middle American 
Pictorial Manuscripts elaborated by John Glass in 
collaboration with Donald Robertson. Although it 
was published in 1974, it still is an invaluable 
work that has been our bible ever since it came out.

Now, as this cencus is more than 30 years old the 
bibliographic references, as well as the 
methodological and theoretical focus of 
ethnohistorical studies has changed considerably. 
It has, therefore, become necessary to update the 
1975 census, an undertaking initiated a couple of 
years ago by Maria Castañeda de la Paz and 
myself. This project is almost finished and has 
been made possible due to the support and 
collaboration of over 40 specialists in pictorial 
studies. The results will be published by the 
University of Texas Press as a Supplement to the Ethnohistorical Sources.

We also decided to include a second volume on 
alphabetical documents in indigenous languages 
which will include articles by renowned 
specialists and an index of known documents. The 
latter, which is still not finished, will be 
presented in a date base and will contain 
references sent to us by numerous colleagues. Of 
course, anybody who has references to 
alphabetical documents written in an Mesoamerican 
language can still sent the information to me 
(mroudyk at hotmail.com or the address given below).

I hope this information is useful to you and will 
avoid people doing the same work over and over again.



Michel R. Oudijk
UNAM
Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas
Seminario de Lenguas Indígenas
Circuito Mario de la Cueva
Ciudad Universitaria, 04510
México, D.F.
Tlf. +52-(55)-5622-7489
Fax: +52-(55)-5622-7496



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