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This essay focuses on four main areas: the 1985-6 repairs; the watermarks identified in the body of the Codex Mendoza as well as in endpapers and in the monetary tables which, although not included in this facsimile, make up the second part of MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1; the numbering systems, quire signatures, foliations, and collation of the manuscript; and a reconstruction of its binding history. The section on watermarks was originally created by the author of the present report in 1990 to accompany his selection of beta-radiographs and was reproduced in the 1992 facsimile (Berdan and Anawalt 1992, 20–23). It is reprised here with further observations. The collation notes and charts below were made directly from the manuscript and independently from the material and chart published in the 1992 facsimile (13–20, especially fig. 9) by Wayne Ruwet, who had examined the manuscript in 1971; however, Wayne Ruwet and Bruce Barker-Benfield corresponded in 1985 over some aspects of the binding, watermarks, and flyleaves. Further observations about the implications of repairs, watermarks, and collation of the Codex Mendoza for the study of its making and circulation were made by the editor of the present facsimile in his doctoral dissertation (Gómez Tejada 2012) and form part of the discussion on materiality in the present volume.