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turies after the conquest, and a hundred years 

 after the journey of Boturini, a considerable 

 number of historical Mexican paintings. 



The Codex Mexicanus of the Borgian muse- 

 um at Veletri is the finest of the Azteck manu- 

 scripts, that I have examined. We shall have oc- 

 casion to speak of it hereafter, in the explanation 

 of the 15th plate. 



The collection preserved in the royal library 

 at Berlin contains different Azteck paintings, 

 which I purchased during my abode in New 

 Spain. The twelfth plate gives two fragments 

 of this collection : it contains the lists of tri- 

 butes, genealogies, the history of the migrations 

 of the Mexicans, and a calendar made at the 

 beginning of the conquest, in which the simple 

 hieroglyphics of the days are joined to figures of 

 saints painted in the Azteck style. 



The library of the Vatican at Rome possesses 

 in the valuable collection of its manuscripts 

 two Codices Mexicani, numbered 3738 5 and 

 3776, in the catalogue. These collections, as 

 well as the manuscript of Veletri, were un- 

 known to Dr. Robertson, when he enumerated 

 the Mexican paintings preserved in the different 

 libraries of Europe. Mercatus* in his de- 

 scription of the obelisks of Rome, relates, that, 

 toward the end of the 16th century, two col- 



* Mercatus, degli Obelischi di Roma, C. 2, p. 96. 



