History of Art and Architecture 191x: Books and Things in the Colonial World

Thomas B. F. Cummins
We study the few remaining Mesoamerican Pre-Columbian, as well as the much more numerous sixteenth and seventeenth-century colonial, pictorial manuscripts. We also study the only three pictorial manuscripts of the Andes. Emphasis is on the production, form and iconography of the different manuscripts. The physical and formal properties also are examined in relation to use of manuscripts in the Americas, both before and after the Spanish conquest.