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The ''Ramirez Codex'' is a Manuscript from the 16th century originally called ''Relación del origen de los indios que hábitan esta Nueva España según sus Historias'' ("Relation of the origin of the indians who inhabit this New Spain according to their Histories"). It was originally credited to Juan De Tovar , but now scholars accept that he copied the manuscript from an Nahuatl source, written probably by a christianized Aztec . Ramirez Codex is considered a primary source on Aztec history. It was discovered by José Fernando Ramírez in 1856. The codex was elaborated with traditional technics after the conquest. It consists of four manuscripts that narrate the history of the Aztec s, from their peregrination into the Anahuac Valley , to the fall of Tenochtitlan . It also discussed some aspects of the Aztec religion. There remain two extant copies of the codex. One is located in the Mexico 's Museo Nacional De Antropología , while the other is in the library of John Carter Brown , in Rhode Island . The codex was taken as a source for the works of several writters, like Jesuit priest Diego Durán , and originally believed to be only a shortened form of those. It was also included as a preface in the 1847 publication of the work by Fernando Alvarado Tezozomoc '' Crónica Mexicayotl '' (originally written in 1598). |
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