180 



is 326 centimetres (eleven Roman palms) in 

 length, was ceded, the 26th of December, 1665, 

 by Count Valerio Zani to the Marquis of Caspi. 

 The characters, which are traced on a thick and 

 ill prepared skin, seem in a great measure to al- 

 lude to the form of the constellations, and to as- 

 trological notions. There exists an engraved 

 copy of this Codex Mexicanus of Bologna, in the 

 Museum of Cardinal Borgia, at Veletri. 



The collection of Vienna, which is sixty-five 

 pages, is become celebrated, since it fixed the 

 attention of Dr. Robertson ; who, in his classic 

 work on the History of the New Continent, has 

 published a few pages in outlines only, and with- 

 out coloring. We read on the first page of this 

 Mexican manuscript, that it was sent by 

 King Emanuel of Portugal to Pope Clement 

 the Seventh, and that it has since been in the 

 hands of the Cardinals Hippolito de Medicis and 

 Capuanus. 



Lambeccius*, who has made very incorrect 

 engravings of some figures of the Codex Vindo- 

 bonensis, . observes, that as King Emanuel was 

 dead two years before the election of Pope Cle- 

 ment the Seventh, this manuscript could not have 

 been given to this last Pontiff, but rather to Leo 

 the Tenth, to whom the King of Portugal sent an 



* Lambeccii Commentar. de Bibliotheca Csesar. Vindo- 

 bonensi, ed. 1776, p. 966. 



