List of Plates, Figures, and Tables . . vi
Plates . . x
Beinecke Map (gatefold) . . after page 192 

Introduction - The Beinecke Map . . 1
Chapter 1 - The Beinecke Map: Iconography and Physical Properties . . 9
Chapter 2 - Pictography, Writing, and Mapping in the Valley of Mexico and the Beinecke Map . . 31
Chapter 3 - Sibling Maps, Spatial Rivalries: The Beinecke Map and the Piano Parcial de la Ciudad de Mexico . . 53
Chapter 4 - The Traces of the Creative Process: Pictorial Materials and Techniques in the Beinecke Map . . 75
Chapter 5 - Analytical Report of the Pigments and Binding Materials Used on the Beinecke Map . . 91
Chapter 6 - On the Margins of Mexico City: What the Beinecke Map Shows . . 101
Chapter 7 - Crown and Tlatoque: The Iconography of Rulership in the Beinecke Map . . 111
Chapter 8 - Nahuatl Hieroglyphic Writing and the Beinecke Map . . 137
Chapter 9 - A Mexican Map Abroad: The Beinecke Map in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries . . 159

Afterword . . 177
Appendix A - Conservation of the Beinecke Map . . 179
Appendix B - Individuals Named Hieroglyphically on the Plots of the Beinecke Map . . 181

Contributors . . 193
Glossary . . 195
Bibliography . . 197
Index . . 209