Madrid Codex Detail
Madrid Excerpt
This graphic detail from the Madrid Codex comes to us from a course outline found at http://www.bton.ac.uk/design/MA.COURSE/LFund.html. I don't have the heart to tell them that this is not from the Borgia Codex, but want to thank them anyway for making the graphic available.

I think they're correct in stating that the Borgia Codex is read in a BOUSTROPHEDONIC manner; that is, in a meandering pattern, typically from right to left like the Mixtec codices, but I don't believe this is the case with the Madrid.


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