Lienzo de Tlaxcala

Wed Apr 4 16:28:56 UTC 2012

Ding!  This is fabulous!  Combined with the other three citations I am going to be golden.
Les agradezco de todo corazon la ayuda que me han brindado.

On Apr 4, 2012, at 9:11 AM, David Wright wrote:

> Dear Kier:
>  
> There are several versions, copies and editions of the Lienzo de Tlaxcala. The Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia has a copy on four pieces of cloth, painted in 1773. One of the oldests versions (ca. 1584) is the one included in the Relación geográfica de Tlaxcala, held by the University of Glasgow, consisting of 156 drawings on separate pages.
>  
> There's an excellent facsimile of the Glasgow manuscript, published by René Acuña shortly after its "discovery" by Acuña:
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> Diego Muñoz Camargo, Descripción de la ciudad y provincia de Tlaxcala de la Nueva España y Indias del mar Océano, para el buen gobierno y ennoblecimiento dellas, facsimile of the ms., René Acuña, editor, México, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1981.
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> These drawings were published together with Acuña's transcription of the text in two editions:
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> Muñoz Camargo, Diego, Relaciones geográficas del siglo XVI: Tlaxcala, vol. 1, René Acuña, editor, México, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1984.
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> Muñoz Camargo, Diego, Descripción de la ciudad y provincia de Tlaxcala, René Acuña, editor, San Luis Potosí/Tlaxcala, El Colegio de San Luis/Gobierno del Estado de Tlaxcala, 2000.
>  
> Of the 156 drawings in the Glasgow manuscript, 80 were published (as lithographic copies) by Alfredo Chavero in 1892 with the title "El Lienzo de Tlaxcala".
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> The Chavero lithographs were published with a new study in a handsome folio edition: García Quintana, Josefina; Martínez Marín, Carlos, El lienzo de Tlaxcala, México, Cartón y Papel de México, 1983.
>  
> There is a partial copy on a single folio of amate paper, folded to make four pages, that looks very much like it’s from the 16th century, in the Benson Collection at the University of Texas:
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> Lienzo de Tlaxcala, University of Texas at Austin, Benson Latin American Collection, Ex-Stendahl Collection.
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> For an overview of the various copies and publications, see:
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> Glass, John B.; Robertson, Donald, “A census of native Middle American pictorial manuscripts,” in Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume fourteen: Guide to ethnohistorical sources, Part three, Howard F. Cline, Charles Gibson and Henry B. Nicholson, volume editors, Austin, University of Texas Press, 1975, pp. 215-217 (census number 350).
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> Here's an incomplete bibliography of relatively recent studies of this manuscript:
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> Brotherston, Gordon; Gallegos, Ana, “El Lienzo de Tlaxcala y el manuscrito de Glasgow (Hunter 242)”, en Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl (Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), vol. 20, 1990, pp. 117-140.
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> Cruz Rivera, Sandra Amelia, “Lienzo de Tlaxcala,” in Arqueología Mexicana (Editorial Raíces/Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia), ed. especial no. 42, La colección de códices de la Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 2012, pp. 46-49.
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> Hernández Xochitiotzin, Desiderio, “El Lienzo de Tlaxcala en la historia y el arte,” in Antología de Tlaxcala, vol. 4, Ángel García Cook y Beatriz Leonor Merino Carrión, editors; Lorena Mirambell Silva, coordinator, México/Tlaxcala, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia/Gobierno del Estado de Tlaxcala, 1997, pp. 110-113.
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> Martínez, Andrea, “Las pinturas del manuscrito de Glasgow y el Lienzo de Tlaxcala,” in Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl (Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), vol. 20, 1990, pp. 141-162.
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> Noguez, Xavier, “Lienzo de Tlaxcala,” in Arqueología Mexicana (Editorial Raíces/Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia), vol. 17, no. 103, May-June 2010, pp. 84, 85.
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> The two articles in Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl are available here:
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> http://www.historicas.unam.mx/publicaciones/revistas/nahuatl/ecnnum.html
>  
> Saludos,
>  
> David  Wright
>  
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: nahuatl-bounces at lists.famsi.org [mailto:nahuatl-bounces at lists.famsi.org] En nombre de Kier Salmon
> Enviado el: miércoles, 04 de abril de 2012 10:06
> Para: Aztlan; Nahuat-l ((messages))
> Asunto: [Nahuat-l] Lienzo de Tlaxcala
>  
> Estimados, una pregunta sobre el Lienzo de Tlaxcala.
>  
> Tengo entendido que ha sido perdido desde tiempos de la invasión Nopoleonica, pero que copias todavía se hallan en ciertos lugares.  Hoy día halle en el internet la referencia "Lienzo de Tlaxcala, lamina 45."
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> ¿Existe un libro que contiene una compilación completa de el Lienzo?  Y si ea así, ¿donde?
>  
> Favor, si alguno de ustedes tiene una citación para este lienzo, favor de compartir.
> Agradecida de antemano.
>  
> A question about the Lienzo de Tlaxcala.  I had understood it was lost at some point around the Napoleonic invasion of Maximillian's Mexico, but that various copies have survived.  I looked five or six years ago for a book with pictures of the lienzo, but never found one.
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> Today, surfing the internet I found a reference to "lamina 45" of the Lienzo.  But the site did not give any further detail of where it was from.  If such a book exists, could somebody please send me the citation!  I really need it.
>  
> Thanking all in advance.
>  
> Kier Salmon
> Seattle WA
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