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The Florentine Codex, Book Eleven: Earthly Things - A General History of the Things of New Spain (Paperback)
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The Florentine Codex, Book Eleven: Earthly Things - A General History of the Things of New Spain (Paperback)
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Two of the world's leading scholars of the Aztec language and
culture have translated SahagUn's monumental and encyclopedic study
of native life in Mexico at the time of the Spanish Conquest. This
immense undertaking is the first complete translation into any
language of SahagUn's Nahuatl text, and represents one of the most
distinguished contributions in the fields of anthropology,
ethnography, and linguistics. Written between 1540 and 1585, the
Florentine Codex (so named because the manuscript has been part of
the Laurentian Library's collections since at least 1791) is the
most authoritative statement we have of the Aztecs' lifeways and
traditions-a rich and intimate yet panoramic view of a doomed
people. The Florentine Codex is divided by subject area into twelve
books and includes over 2,000 illustrations drawn by Nahua artists
in the sixteenth century. Book Eleven is a beautifully written and
careful documentation of all of the animals and plants known to the
Aztecs in the sixteenth century. As the volume with the most
illustrations, Earthly Things allows the reader to look at the
natural world through the eyes of the Aztec.
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