Francisco de Toral
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Francisco de Toral, O.F.M. was a Franciscan missionary in New Spain, and the first Bishop of Yucatán.
Portrait of Francisco de Toral
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
Francisco de Toral
…the Nahuatl and Popoloca languages, and compiled a dictionary and grammar of the latter. He also charged Bernardino de Sahagún with the creation of the Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva España. In Yucatán he led an investigation into the alleged abuses of the Maya by Diego de Landa, employing Gaspar Antonio Chi as his interpreter; Landa would…
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