Bernardino de sahagun florentine codex aztec

Text by Bernardino de Sahagún

The Florentine Codex is a 16th-century ethnographic research study in Mesoamerica by the Spanish Franciscan friarBernardino de Sahagún.

Sahagún originally titled it La Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva España (in English: The General History of the Things of New Spain).^[1] After a translation mistake, it was given the name Historia general de las Cosas de Nueva España.

The best-preserved manuscript is commonly referred to as the Florentine Codex, as the codex is held in the Laurentian Library of Florence, Italy.

Bernardino de sahagun florentine codex aztec

In partnership with Nahua elders and authors who were formerly his students at the Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco, Sahagún conducted research, organized evidence, wrote and edited his findings. He worked on this project from 1545 up until his death in 1590.

The work consists of 2,500 pages organized into twelve books; more than 2,000 illustrations drawn by native artists provide vivid im