The Codex Laud, or Laudianus, (catalogued as MS. Laud Misc. 678, Bodleian Library in Oxford) is a sixteenth-century Mesoamerican codex named for William Laud, an English archbishop who was the former owner.

The name ‘Codex Mictlan’ or ‘Book of Death’ has been proposed as an alternative to ‘Codex Laud’ on the basis of the representation of death deities in the first section.

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Codex Laudianus, designated by Ea or 08 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 1001 (von Soden), called Laudianus after the former owner, Archbishop William Laud. It is a diglot Latin — Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, palaeographically assigned to the 6th century. The manuscript contains the Acts of the Apostles.

Travelers find particular prominence in the six-panel ritual that occupies pp. 17-22 of the Codex Laud, where twenty-two large figures are shown striding from right to left in two rows toward bundled offerings.

On the other hand, the Laud uniquely subdivides its ritual festivals into increments of eight and five days. It also names different patron deities for its divergent (half) media-trecenas. Further, the Laud is the only codex in the Borgia Group likely read in reverse (right to left).

Codices from 15th and 16th century Mexico. These Mesoamerican manuscripts described wars, victories, famine, pestilence, religious events, and other elements of ancient Mesoamerican …

Images from the Borgia Group - Codex Laud from John Pohl.

Codex Laud is a book of religious instruction. It contains eleven sections, one of which deals with the passage of the human being through life, and two with priestly initiation. Its only previous publication was from tracings of A. Aglio in Kingsborough’s Mexican Antiquities (1829)." Graz 1966. Vol. 11 of the series CODICES SELECTI.

Death, as the Aztecs imagined it before the Spanish conquest of Mexico, is a central theme in the Codex Laud, which was named after its last owner, the Archbishop of Canterbury William Laud (d. 1645).