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Aztec warriors in typical costume of elite ranks with back racks displaying group insignia. They each carry an obsidian-bladed spear. From the Codex Mendoza, folio 67. (Bodleian Library, Oxford)

An illustration from the Codex Manesse depicting a Teutonic Knight. (14th century CE, Zurich, Switzerland)

Aztec god Quetzalcoatl and a hummingbird, book illustration included in the Codex Magliabechiano by unknown artist, p. 61r, c. 1550. Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence.

A medieval chess game, popular across Europe in the Middle Ages, illustration from the Codex Manesse, produced in Zürich, Switzerland, 14th century. University Library of Heidelberg, Germany.

The lighting of fires during the Aztec New Fire Ceremony of 1507, a ritual held every 52 years to ensure the continuation of the Sun. The priests carry fire bundles and wear turquoise masks in imitation of the fire god Xiuhtecuhtli, as do...

Painting of the dog-headed Aztec god Xolotl with the fire serpent Xiuhcoatl, from a facsimile of the pre-Hispanic Borgia Codex, 16th century. The British Museum, London.

Xipe Totec, the Mesoamerican god of spring and patron of planting, seeds, and goldsmiths, and particularly worshipped by the Aztecs, as depicted in the Codex Barbonicus. Human sacrifices were made to the god and the skins of the victims worn...

Page 66 of the 9th-10th-century manuscript of Codex 169(468), containing works by Isidore, Hucbaldus and Bernoldus as well as the Gospel of Nicodemus, copied at various times in Italy and Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek, Einsiedeln.

A medieval illustration of the Germanic knight Wolfram von Eschenbach and his squire. 1305-1315 CE. (Codex Manesse, Zurich, Switzerland)

A Latin version of Gynaecology by Soranus of Ephesus, showing positions of the embryo in the uterus. Codex 3714, fol. 28r. Bibliothèque Royale, Brussels.