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ssss1 In her chapter of this volume, Claudia Brittenham proposes that we should not think of the objects of interest of the second section of the Codex Mendoza as elements of tribute, but rather as units of tax. Furthermore, Brittenham suggests that this section may have gone beyond informational purposes by highlighting the value of the manuscript itself as an object of symbolic subjection.

ssss1 See the chapters of Mary Miller, Gómez Tejada and Brittenham in this volume.

ssss1 These three manuscripts are part of the study on pigments that MOLAB carried out in European libraries which began 2012 and continues during the present time. The results of this study have been presented in Jansen, Lladó-Buisan, and Snijders (2018).

ssss1 “La colección de Mendoza. This is the name of the collection of 63 paintings ordered by the first viceroy of Mexico, D. Antonio de Mendoza, to which he also ordered to make their respective explanations in Mexican and Spanish language, and thus send them to Emperor Carlos V” (Clavijero 1964, 51).