⚠The text on this page is extremely faint, appearing as ghosted text or bleed-through from an adjacent page. The transcription is based on the discernible shapes of the characters which correspond to the preface of the 1902 facsimile edition of the Codex Nuttall.

NOTE

As an acknowledgment of the tireless research of Mrs. Zelia NuttallZelia Nuttall (1857–1933) was a pioneering American archaeologist and researcher of pre-Columbian Mexico who rediscovered this manuscript in a private library in England., one of the results of which has been the discovery of the long-lost manuscript published here as a facsimileA facsimile is an exact copy or reproduction of an original manuscript, intended to be as faithful to the source as possible., and in recognition of her high achievements in Mexican Archaeology, the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology has given to this ancient Mexican book the name of Codex Nuttall.

The Museum is indebted to the subscribers of the Fund for the Encouragement of Mexican and Central American Research for providing the means to publish this valuable CodexAn ancient manuscript in book form. Mixtec codices were typically painted on long strips of deerskin and folded like an accordion..

F. W. PUTNAM

Curator of the Museum.

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, April, 1902.