Codice Goupil—IXLILXOCHITL.
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[Illustration:
Plate E.
THE GREAT TEOCALLI,
FROM THE CHRONICLE OF MEXICO, 1576.
MANUSCRIPT,—BRITISH MUSEUM, NO. 31219. ADDITIONAL.
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Footnote 1:
‘Mexico en 1554. Tres Dialogos Latinos que Francisco Cervantes Salazar
escribio y imprimio en Mexico en dicho año.’ A reprint with Spanish
translation and notes by Joaquim García Icazbalceta. Mexico, 1875.
Footnote 2:
Dr. Seler states that the house of Mota still retains its name.
Footnote 3:
See paragraphs on pp. 7 & 8.
Footnote 4:
_I. e._ the Enclosure of the Great Temple.
Footnote 5:
A note by Don Lucas Alaman says: “I do not know what was the origin of
this division of the Temple into three parts, which this expression
appears to indicate.”
Footnote 6:
This would agree fairly well with Tracing A_{2}, if the Apetlac or
forecourt were included.
Footnote 7:
Bernal Díaz speaks of them as Torrezillas.
Footnote 8:
Memoriales de Fray Toribio de Motolinia. Manuscrito de la coleccion
del Señor Don Jonquin García Icazbalceta, publicalo por primera vez su
hijo Luis García Pimentel. Paris: A. Donnamette, 30 Rue de Saints
Pères, 1903. This is probably the original manuscript from which the
‘Historia de los Indios de Nueva Hispaña’ was taken.
Footnote 9:
Un poco tuerto.
Footnote 10:
Todo el Pueblo.
Footnote 11:
“Donde parecia terminar la escalinata se descubrió un muro en talud
siguiendo la misma dirección de la escalera.”
Footnote 12:
This must refer not to the altars themselves but the temples
containing the altars.
Footnote 13:
Or towards the rear.
Footnote 14:
Sahagun specifies 78 edifices in connection with the great Temple,
among these are “No. 72, named Itepeioc, a house where the Chieftains
make the image of Vitzilopuchtli out of dough [masa],” and “No. 73,
the building named Vitznoacealpulli, which is the house where they
make the image of the other God, the companion of Vitzilopuchtli,
named Tlacavepancuexcozin.” It thus appears that the two “barrios” or
districts mentioned were sections of the Temple enclosure.
Footnote 15:
Cortés evidently uses the term Mosque (Mesquita) for the whole group
of Temples within the Enclosure.
Footnote 16:
This is evidently an exaggeration, the houses of the Marques del Valle
and the Mexican royal houses were not included in the area of the
Temple Enclosure.
Footnote 17:
The apetlac?
Footnote 18:
The apetlac?
Footnote 19:
Tianguiz is the Mexican word for Market.
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