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Show tones especially of blue and green are much nearer to the original. The document appears in Volume II of Antiquities of Mexico by Edward King, Lord Kingsborough, and is the second item in the volume. It is described as: Facsimile of An Original Mexican Painting given to the University of Oxford by Archbishop Laud and Preserved in the Bodleian Library:œ 46 Pages. Marked Laud B 65. nunc. 678. Cat. MSS Angl. 546. Other coloured copies are the hand coloured facsimile by Annie G. Hunter in the Peadbody Museum Library at Harvard, which appears to be unique. Annie Hunter had a great regard for accuracy and this is likely to be an excellent version of the original. There is also the limited edition of 25 copies only, 46 plates, produced by G. M. Echaniz in 1937. There is a photographic monochrome edition in existence. The Editors of the forthcoming Bureau of American Ethnography Handbook of Middle America tell us that there are copies in the Museo Nacional de Antropologia in Mexico, and in the Latin American Library of Tu-lane University. The most widely circulated edition of the Codex Laud in photographic monochrome is the one published by the Institute Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Mexico, 1961. In this work Carlos Martinez Marin has collated all previous published notes on the Codex, added a useful commentary, and reproduced monochrome plates from the photographic negatives made for Paso y Troncoso in 1898. Unfortunately the colour values are incorrectly recorded on these old orthochromatic plates. The effect is much as if the Codex had been photographed through a blue-violet filter. The blues are pale, and the reds and yellows are very dark. On p. 52 of this work a stain pattern appears impressed on the upper right corner of the folio 10 which is no longer apparent on the original. One wonders if it was a stain on the |
