The Florentine Codex: An Encyclopedia of the Nahua World in Sixteenth-Century Mexico

In the sixteenth century, the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahag?n 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477318402
• ISBN13: 9781477318409
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.8" x 11.2"