The Florentine Codex : an encyclopedia of the Nahua world in sixteenth-century Mexico /

The Florentine Codex : an encyclopedia of the Nahua world in sixteenth-century Mexico /

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Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Austin : University of Texas Press, 2019. ©2019
Description:	viii, 241 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 29 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Códice florentino. Códice florentino. Manuscripts, Nahuatl. Manuscripts, Mexican. Aztecs -- History -- 16th century. Aztecs. Manuscripts, Mexican. Manuscripts, Nahuatl. Mexico -- History -- 16th century. Mexico. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11934833

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Other authors / contributors:	Peterson, Jeanette Favrot, editor. Terraciano, Kevin, 1962- editor.
ISBN:	9781477318409 1477318402 9781477318416 9781477318423
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	In the sixteenth century, the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagun and a team of indigenous grammarians, scribes, and painters completed decades of work on an extraordinary encyclopedic project titled 'General History of the Things of New Spain', known as the 'Florentine Codex' (1575-1577). Now housed in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence and bound in three lavishly illustrated volumes, the codex is a remarkable product of cultural exchange in the early Americas. In this edited volume, experts from multiple disciplines analyze the manuscript's bilingual texts and more than 2,000 painted images and offer fascinating, new insights on its twelve books. The contributors examine the "three texts" of the codex-the original Nahuatl, its translation into Spanish, and its painted images. Together, these constitute complementary, as well as conflicting, voices of an extended dialogue that occurred in and around Mexico City. The volume chapters address a range of subjects, from Nahua sacred beliefs, moral discourse, and natural history to the Florentine artists' models and the manuscript's reception in Europe. 'The Florentine Codex' ultimately yields new perspectives on the Nahua world several decades after the fall of the Aztec empire.

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