Library of Congress Acquires Rare Codex from Central Mexico
October 28, 2022
October 28, 2022
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- The Library of Congress issued the following news:
The Library of Congress has acquired the San Salvador Huejotzingo Codex, which documents legal proceedings from 1571 in which Indigenous Nahuatl officials in central Mexico accused their village's Spanish canon, or administrator, of mistreatment, harassment and underpayment.
The codex contains new details about the earliest legal structures in Mexico after Spanish colonization and the way Ind . . .
The Library of Congress has acquired the San Salvador Huejotzingo Codex, which documents legal proceedings from 1571 in which Indigenous Nahuatl officials in central Mexico accused their village's Spanish canon, or administrator, of mistreatment, harassment and underpayment.
The codex contains new details about the earliest legal structures in Mexico after Spanish colonization and the way Ind . . .