Codex Zouche-Nuttall

Codex Zouche-Nuttall
Detail of page 20 from the codex
MaterialAnimal skin
Size11.35 metres in length
Created14th–15th centuries AD
Present locationBritish Museum, London
RegistrationAdd MS 39671

The Codex Zouche-Nuttall or Codex Tonindeye is an accordion-folded pre-Columbian document of Mixtec pictography, now in the collections of the British Museum. It is one of about 16 manuscripts from Mexico that are entirely pre-Columbian in origin. The codex derives its name from Zelia Nuttall, who first published it in 1902, and Robert Curzon, 14th Baron Zouche (1810–1873), whose collection was donated to the British Museum upon the death of his daughter, Darea Curzon, 16th Baroness Zouche, in 1917.

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