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ssss1 In this volume, Davide Domenici and the MOLAB team suggest a date range between 1530 and 1560 based on pigment analysis and other material evidence; the team strongly emphasizes the period around 1550 due to the presence of the orpiment pigment, which appears in Mexican manuscripts around that time. Similarly, based on a reading of the political context of New Spain during the 1540s, Barbara Mundy suggests that the Codex Mendoza was created around 1547 as part of the Huanitzin family’s strategy to secure power as the legitimate descendants of Moteuhczoma. My analysis of the Codex Mendoza’s narrative priorities suggests that the manuscript was inserted into the context of the defense of the indigenous peoples of the Americas promoted by Bartolomé de Las Casas between 1547 and 1552.