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The Fejérváry-Mayer Code is a pre-Hispanic manuscript belonging to the Borgia Group, with a style very similar to the Laud Code. Its origin has not been precisely determined, in it converge elements of the Nahua, Nahua-Cholulteca, Mixteca and Maya cultural areas.
It is one of the best preserved Mexican codes. Made on a 3.85-metre deerskin strip, bent into biombo, it contains 23 biombo-folded leaves, with 44 painted foils.
It is thought to have been made at the request of the pochtecas - merchants - as a Tonalámatl, that is, a book in which in various ways the record of the calendar or fortune telling account of 260 days and the destinies of it is made.
This codix belonged for many years to the Hungarian collector Gabriel Fejérváry, inherited by his nephew sold it in 1851 to Joshep Mayer, also a collector, who would donate it to the present-day Museum of Liverpool, England, where it is preserved.
Miguel León Portilla, proposes to call it Tonalámatl of the Pochtecas, a name that is a faithful reflection of its content, i.e., a tonalpohualli or calendar of the account of the days and fates that govern the Pochteca or merchaderes
