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Codex Vaticanus B

pre-Columbian Middle American pictorial manuscript
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Summary

Codex Vaticanus B is an illuminated manuscript[1]. It draws 144 Wikipedia views per month (illuminated manuscript category, ranking #32 of 197).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: codex[3]
  • Collection: Vatican Library[4]
  • Inventory number: Vat.lat.3773[5]
  • Location: Vatican Library[6]
  • Part of: Borgia Group[7]
  • Commons category: Codex Vaticanus B[8]
  • Main subject: tōnalpōhualli[9]
  • Work available at URL: https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.3773[10]
  • Culture: Mesoamerica[11]
  • IIIF manifest URL: https://digi.vatlib.it/iiif/MSS_Vat.lat.3773/manifest.json[12]

Why It Matters

Codex Vaticanus B has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . digi.vatlib.it. Retrieved . digi.vatlib.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Vatican Library. Retrieved . digi.vatlib.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 1d ago · Zserghei · 2026-10-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['commons', 'en', 'fr', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'uk']
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||ru, da, ro, uk, it */ Add the Russian label ru:Мезоамериканские кодексы and ru:Группа Борджиа use, with ru:Тлакацинакантли's form as an alias, the Latin name "
  2. 11w ago · Regisrob · 2026-07-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → illuminated manuscript, codex
    Location → Vatican Library
    Culture → Mesoamerica
    Main subject → tōnalpōhualli
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-and-other-short:0||en, it, fr */ import biblissima id (aligned bav shelfmarks) ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/d850cba06e1|details]])"
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