Codex Magliabechiano: the road and destinations of the dead
- Date of account
- 16th-century colonial manuscript
- Location
- Central Mexico
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The Codex Magliabechiano is an early colonial Nahua manuscript with images and explanatory glosses concerning ceremonies, festivals, deities, calendrical practices, and death-related beliefs. Its treatment of funerary customs and postmortem destinations can be compared with the Mictlan material in Sahagún’s corpus and other colonial codices. The document is especially useful for studying visual transmission and the translation of Indigenous categories for European readers. Its anonymous authorship, uncertain original exemplars, and Spanish glosses make reconstruction of pre-conquest meanings provisional rather than straightforward.
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