Parution : Painting a map of sixteenth-century Mexico City : land, writing and native rule

Auteurs

• Miller, Mary Ellen (1952-….). Éditeur scientifique
• Mundy, Barbara E. (19..-…. ; historienne d’art). Éditeur scientifique

Résumé de l’éditeur

In 1975, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University acquired an exceptional mid-16th-century map of Mexico City, which, until 1521, had been the capital of the Aztecs, the Nahua-speaking peoples who dominated the Valley of Mexico. This extraordinary six-by-three-foot document, showing landholdings and indigenous rulers, has yielded a wealth of information about the artistic, linguistic, and material culture of the Nahua after the Spanish invasion. This book marks the first publication of both the complete map and the multi-disciplinary research that it spurred.

A distinguished team of specialists in history, art history, linguistics, and conservation science has worked together for nearly a decade; the scientific analysis of the map’s pigments and paper in 2007 marks the most thorough examination of a pictorial document from early colonial Mexico to date. The result of their work, the essays in Painting a Map of Sixteenth-Century Mexico, not only focuses on the map but also explores the situation of the indigenous people of Mexico City in the 16th century and their interactions with Europeans.

Compte rendu

• Truitt, Jonathan, « Painting a Map of Sixteenth-Century Mexico City: Land, Writing, and Native Rule, ed. Mary E. Miller and Barbara E. Mundy », The English Historical Review, 2015, April, vol. 130, n° 543, p. 436–437. DOI : https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cev045
• Sluyter, Andrew, “Painting a Map of Sixteenth-Century Mexico City: Land, Writing, and Native Rule”, Faculty Publications, 2014, n° 12, p. 132. Disponible en ligne, url : <https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/geoanth_pubs/12>.
• Pulido-Rull, Ana, « Barbara E. Mundy and Mary E. Miller, eds.Painting a Map of Sixteenth-Century Mexico City: Land, Writing, and Native Rule New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. 232 pp.;284 color ills.; 13 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00(9780300180718)« , CAA reviews, 15 janvier 2014. DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2014.7

Sommaire

• List of Plates, Figures, and Tables . . vi
• Plates . . x
• Beinecke Map (gatefold) . . after page 192
• Introduction – The Beinecke Map . . 1
• Chapter 1 – The Beinecke Map: Iconography and Physical Properties . . 9
• Chapter 2 – Pictography, Writing, and Mapping in the Valley of Mexico and the Beinecke Map . . 31
• Chapter 3 – Sibling Maps, Spatial Rivalries: The Beinecke Map and the Piano Parcial de la Ciudad de Mexico . . 53
• Chapter 4 – The Traces of the Creative Process: Pictorial Materials and Techniques in the Beinecke Map . . 75
• Chapter 5 – Analytical Report of the Pigments and Binding Materials Used on the Beinecke Map . . 91
• Chapter 6 – On the Margins of Mexico City: What the Beinecke Map Shows . . 101
• Chapter 7 – Crown and Tlatoque: The Iconography of Rulership in the Beinecke Map . . 111
• Chapter 8 – Nahuatl Hieroglyphic Writing and the Beinecke Map . . 137
• Chapter 9 – A Mexican Map Abroad: The Beinecke Map in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries . . 159
• Afterword . . 177
• Appendix A – Conservation of the Beinecke Map . . 179
• Appendix B – Individuals Named Hieroglyphically on the Plots of the Beinecke Map . . 181
• Contributors . . 193
• Glossary . . 195
• Bibliography . . 197
• Index . . 209

Informations pratiques

• Complément du titre : Edited by Mary E. Miller and Barbara E. Mundy; With essays by Dennis Carr, María Castañeda de la Paz, Pablo Escalante Gonzalbo, Diana Magaloni Kerpel, Mary E. Miller, Barbara E. Mundy, Richard Newman and Michele Derrick, and Gordon Whittaker
• Éditeur : New Haven ; London : Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Libray, Yale University : Yale University Press
• Date de parution : cop. 2012 
• Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XV-216 p.-[1] f. de pl. depl.) : ill. en noir et en coul., cartes, jaquette ill. en coul. ; 29 cm
• Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. [197]-208. Notes bibliogr. Glossaire. Index
• ISBN 9780300180718 (rel.) 

Localisations

• PARIS-BnF :
  • Tolbiac – Rez-de-jardin – magasin : 2012-377132
  • Tolbiac – Cartes et plans – Salle R – magasin : GE EE-8118
• MADRID-Casa de Velázquez
• PARIS-BIS, Fonds général
• PARIS-INHA
• PARIS-Médiathèque MQB

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