Читать книгу The Codex Mendoza: new insights онлайн

110 страница из 150

Among these, the clearer specimens provide examples of at least two molds, e.g.:

Figure 3. (i) Folios 6, 29, 36 (figure 4, beta-radiograph), 37 (beta-radiograph), 42, 48. Lower legs shapelier

Figure 4. (ii) Folios 9, 41, 52 (beta-radiograph). Lower legs straighter

But the two molds are not differentiated on the collation chart below, as some specimens are obscured by ink or paint and thus hard to distinguish.

Pattern D: “Pilgrim”

“Pilgrim” facing left (as seen from the wire side), in a circle: beneath, two letters, perhaps “I P”. No match for a pilgrim with these letters appears in Briquet or Valls i Subirà.

Specimen: folio 71 only (figure 6, beta-radiograph).

Pattern E: Cross (Latin), in pointed shield

On each side of the cross, within the shield, is a capital letter. The design makes sense from either direction, but as seen from the wire side the letters read “F”(?) on the left and “A” on the right. Valls i Subirà (1980, 2:2:129–32, 197–202, no 79–101) describes the shield pattern as “abundant throughout Spain,” and provides examples from 1495 to 1600. Briquet reproduces examples from Spain, Italy, and France (no. 5677-5704, “très nombreux”). If the design were reversed (e.g. read from the “felt” side), the closest parallel (but by no means identical) would be Briquet 5678, with the letters “A R” (Spain, 1576. Var. simil.: Rodez, 1579; Madrid, 1586).