Painting a map of sixteenth-century Mexico City : land, writing, and native rule / edited by Mary E. Miller and Barbara E. Mundy ; with essays by Dennis Carr [and others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Beinecke map / Mary E. Miller -- The Beinecke map : iconography and physical properties / Dennis Carr -- Pictography, writing, and mapping in the valley of Mexico and the Beinecke map / Barbara E. Mundy -- Sibling maps, spatial rivalries : the Beinecke map and the Plano Parcial de la Ciudad de México / Maria Castañeda de la Paz -- The traces of the creative process : pictorial materials and techniques in the Beinecke map / Diana Magaloni Kerpel -- Analytical report of the pigments and binding materials used on the Beinecke map / Richard Newman and Michele Derrick -- On the margins of Mexico City : what the Beinecke map shows / Pablo Escalante Gonzalbo -- Crown and Tlatoque : the iconography of rulership in the Beinecke map / Barbara E. Mundy -- Nahuatl hieroglyphic writing and the Beinecke map / Gordon Whittaker -- A Mexican map abroad : the Beinecke map in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Dennis Carr -- Afterword / Mary E. Miller and Barbara E. Mundy -- Conservation of the Beinecke map / Gisela Noack -- Individuals named hieroglyphically on the plots of the Beinecke map / Gordon Whittaker.