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

Author : Jeanette Favrot Peterson

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ISBN-10 : 1477318402

ISBN-13 : 9781477318409

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The Florentine Codex: An Encyclopedia of the Nahua World in Sixteenth-Century Mexico BY Jeanette Favrot Peterson

Read Online and Download 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 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 .

The Florentine Codex: An Encyclopedia of the Nahua World in Sixteenth-Century Mexico by Jeanette Favrot Peterson

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