Florentine Codex: Book 12: Book 12: The Conquest of Mexico (Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain)
“Highly recommended for all academic and large public  libraries.”—Choice “A great scholarly enterprise.”—New Mexico Historical Review “Bringing the knowledge of modern scholarship to bear on their materials, the  translators have been able to illuminate many obscurities in the text. The  complete series of volumes is a landmark of scholarly achievement.”—The New  Mexican “This publication of Sahagún makes available to scholars and their students  alike the original Nahuatl text for comparison with the more easily accessible  Spanish text, which is in many places merely an abridgment or précis of the  original. A whole series of native sources for the study of Mexican pre-conquest  history is now at hand for a field of historical study formerly restricted to a  small number of investigators. A whole chapter of the cultural history of early  Colonial Mexico is unfolding before us. [The Codex is] an impressive monument to  Spanish humanism in the sixteenth-century New World.”—The Hispanic American  Historical Review “Sahagún emerges as the indisputable founder of ethnographic science. The  accomplishments of the joint translators, Dibble and Anderson, will surely rank  among the greatest achievements of American ethnohistorical  scholarship.”—Natural History