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luries 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 manuscifipts^ 
two Codices Mexicani, numbered 3738, 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 Obelisclii di Roma, C. 2, p, 96. 
