Disguised Mexica merchants in Tzinacantlan acquiring quetzal feathers in Book 9. (all images courtesy of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, and by permission of MiBACT) After centuries of ...
Its length is exorbitant, the entries dense and the title wildly academic. But “La Historia General de las cosas de la Nueva España” — known as “The General History of the Things of New Spain” in ...
Correction: The original version of this article incorrectly stated that the Florentine Codex is translated into Nahuatl, Spanish and English. In fact, digital version of the codex contains English ...
A detail from Book 9 of the Florentine Codex shows a feather worker preparing tropical bird feathers for a feather mosaic. The 16th century codex was created, in part, during a pandemic. (Biblioteca ...
The Getty unveiled this past week the final product of an eight-year effort to digitize a massive, centuries-old encyclopedia of central Mexican indigenous culture. That process has already started ...
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