Borgia Group

The Borgia Group is the scholarly designation of a number of mostly pre-Columbian documents from central Mexico.

In 1830–1831, they were first published in their entirety as colored lithographs of copies made by an Italian artist, Agustino Aglio, in volumes 2 and 3 of Lord Kingsborough's monumental work titled Antiquities of Mexico.

They were named the “Codex Borgia Group” by Eduard Seler, who in 1887 began publishing a series of important elucidations of their contents.

They are distinguished by their religious content, while the pre-Columbian codices of the Mixtec group are principally historical.

The place of origin and the linguistic identity of the creators of the codices have been subject to debate, but may well be Puebla - Tlaxcala - Western Oaxaca.