En este ensayo proponemos una interpretación de dos páginas de la sección histórica del Códice Telleriano-Remensis (ff. 44 recto y verso), inspirada en el método de la semiótica de la escritura y en la idea de una posible “lectura” de la imagen azteca. Después de una descripción detallada del documento, una paleografía completa de las glosas alfabéticas y un desglose de las imágenes más analítico de lo que nos ha proporcionado Eloise Quiñones Keber, vemos que el texto, a nuestros ojos, destaca por su contenido: sería, pues, una verdadera “visión de los vencidos” del primer periodo de la Colonia, plasmada por los indígenas en su propio medio de expresión y sin mediación ni “filtro” de la expresión alfabética. Sobre esto se proponen algunas conclusiones historiográficas, aún por profundizar, sobre la gestión y estratificación del poder político, judiciario, económico-administrativo y religioso en los años de la llegada del poder “oficial” de la Iglesia y también del Virrey representando al poder político de la Corona.
This paper lends an interpretation of two folios in the historical section of Codex Telleriano-Remensis (ff. 44 recto and verso), by the method of semiotics and the idea of a possible “reading” of Aztec pictorial signs. After a detailed material description of pages and a complete palaeographical transcription of the Spanish glosses, the focus of the analysis turns on pictographic text. A new, more articulated segmentation of relevant pictorial elements is proposed – which develops a former reading, provided by Eloise Quiñones Keber. The careful analysis of visual-scriptorial content will show that the two folios are a real “vision of the vanquished”, relating the early period of Colony. Indeed, it was the vision that Aztec “painters-writers” offered in their traditional medium, without any alphabetical “filter”. My final point is to propose some historical hypotheses, still to be validated, about the managing and stratification of political, legal, economic and religious powers during the years when both the “official” Catholic Church and the Castilian Viceroy came to México, in order to represent the new authority of Spanish colonizer.
Los folios 44 recto y verso del Codice Telleriano-Remensis y la historia colonial de los Mexica
PERRI, Antonio
2008-01-01
Abstract
This paper lends an interpretation of two folios in the historical section of Codex Telleriano-Remensis (ff. 44 recto and verso), by the method of semiotics and the idea of a possible “reading” of Aztec pictorial signs. After a detailed material description of pages and a complete palaeographical transcription of the Spanish glosses, the focus of the analysis turns on pictographic text. A new, more articulated segmentation of relevant pictorial elements is proposed – which develops a former reading, provided by Eloise Quiñones Keber. The careful analysis of visual-scriptorial content will show that the two folios are a real “vision of the vanquished”, relating the early period of Colony. Indeed, it was the vision that Aztec “painters-writers” offered in their traditional medium, without any alphabetical “filter”. My final point is to propose some historical hypotheses, still to be validated, about the managing and stratification of political, legal, economic and religious powers during the years when both the “official” Catholic Church and the Castilian Viceroy came to México, in order to represent the new authority of Spanish colonizer.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
