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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.
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 (background).
Aztec warriors as shown in the Florentine Codex
Aztec codex
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Aztec codices are Mesoamerican manuscripts made by the pre-Columbian Aztec, and their Nahuatl-speaking descendants during the colonial period in Mexico. Most of their content is pictorial in nature an
Florentine Codex
…Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico" contains Book XII translated from Nahuatl to English by James Lockhart (2004) ISBN 9781592446810 Aztec codices Bernardino de Sahagún…
Part of the first pages of Codex Mendoza, depicting the founding of Tenochtitlan.
Diego Durán: A comet seen by Moctezuma, interpreted as a sign of impending peril. (Codex Duran, page 1)
Detail of first stones from the Codex Boturini depicting the departure from Aztlán.
Codex Magliabechiano: ritual cannibalism. (Folio 73r)