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In 1925, Jesús Galindo y Villa published the first modern facsimile of the Codex Mendoza. The facsimile was created after a series of photographs was commissioned by Francisco del Paso y Troncoso, who had also served as the director of the National Museum of Mexico. Considered to be of “public value,” the commission had been part of Paso y Troncoso’s project of the recovery of national documents. He initiated this process in 1893, after securing the patronage of Porfirio Díaz.8 Given the preeminence bestowed upon the Codex Mendoza in Orozco y Berra’s work as the inaugural document in an academic serial publication, the role it plays in Peñafiel’s work as both an instrument and a vehicle for a reconstruction of the political and economic geography of the modern Mexican nation based on a pre-Columbian geographic model, and the importance with which Galindo y Villa endows it by marking it as a valuable artifact for the Mexican government, we can see the Codex Mendoza at the forefront of the nationalist Mexican project of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries.