Codex Ríos
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| Date | 16th century |
| Language | Italian |
| Material | European paper |
| Size | 46 cm × 29 cm (18 in × 11 in) |
| Format | Folio |
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Codex Ríos, originally titled Indorum cultus, idolatria, et mores and also known as Codex Vaticanus A, is a 16th-century Italian translation and expansion of an earlier Aztec codex, the identity of which is debated. The source manuscript may have been the Codex Telleriano-Remensis or a hypothetical lost text known as Codex Huitzilopochtli, or the Codex Ríos may have drawn on multiple antecedents.
The Codex Ríos is organised into seven sections by subject, encompassing Aztec religion, cosmology, ethnography, a divinatory almanac, and pictorial chronicles. The annotations, written in cursive Italian, are attributed to Pedro de los Ríos, a Dominican friar working in New Spain between 1547 and 1562. Its illustrations were likely executed by an Italian artist in Rome before the codex entered the Vatican Library, where it remains today.