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Florentine Codex
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The Florentine Codex is a 16th-century ethnographic research study in Mesoamerica by the Spanish Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún. Sahagún originally titled it La Historia General de las Cosas d
Page 51 of Book IX from the Florentine Codex. The text is in Nahuatl; World Digital Library.
Page 51 of Book IX from the Florentine Codex. The text is in Nahuatl; World Digital Library.
Historia general de las Cosas de Nueva España (original from the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana)
Historia general de las Cosas de Nueva España (original from the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana)
An illustration of the "One Flower" ceremony, from the 16th-century Florentine Codex. The two drums are the teponaztli (foreground) and the huehuetl (
An illustration of the "One Flower" ceremony, from the 16th-century Florentine Codex. The two drums are the teponaztli (foreground) and the huehuetl (background).
Aztec warriors as shown in the Florentine Codex
Aztec warriors as shown in the Florentine Codex
Nahuatl
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Nahuatl, Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Varieties of Nahuatl are spoken by about 1.7 million Nahuas, most of whom li
Florentine Codex
…remarkable accounts of a non-Western culture ever composed." Charles E. Dibble and Arthur J. O. Anderson were the first to translate the Codex from Nahuatl to English, in a project that took 30 years to complete. In 2012, high-resolution scans of all volumes of the Florentine Codex, in Nahuatl and Spanish…
The Aztecs called (red) tomatoes xitōmatl, whereas the green tomatillo was called tōmatl; the latter is the source for the English word tomato.
The Aztecs called (red) tomatoes xitōmatl, whereas the green tomatillo was called tōmatl; the latter is the source for the English word tomato.
The place names Mapachtepec ('Raccoon Hill'), Mazatlan ('Deer Place') and Huitztlan ('Thorn Place') written in the Aztec writing system, from the Code
The place names Mapachtepec ('Raccoon Hill'), Mazatlan ('Deer Place') and Huitztlan ('Thorn Place') written in the Aztec writing system, from the Codex Mendoza
Page of Book IV from the Florentine Codex, featuring Nahuatl written using the Latin alphabet
Page of Book IV from the Florentine Codex, featuring Nahuatl written using the Latin alphabet