Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus I

Codex Vindobonensis has 52 pages with size 26.5 by 22 cm.

It was composed in a form of harmony with length 13.5 m. Its weight is 2.687 kg.

It was likely discovered in Veracruz and sent to Sevilla, together with the manuscript Codex Zouche-Nuttall, as a gift for Charles V in 1519.

The later story of the codex is not well known, but it traveled to Portugal, Rome, Weimar, and finally Vienna.

The manuscript frequently changed owners and places in which it was housed.