Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain. Book 12 — The Conquest of Mexico. Fray Bernardino De Sahagún. Translated by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble. Monographs of the School of American Research, No. 14, Pt. 13, School of American Research and University of Utah, Santa Fe, 1955. 122 pp., 21 pls., 3 maps. $6.50.

1957 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 318-319
Author(s):  
Charles Gibson
Keyword(s):  
New Spain ◽  
Santa Fe ◽  
University Of Utah ◽  
Bernardino De Sahagun ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Research ◽  
Florentine Codex ◽  
Conquest Of Mexico

Florentine Codex, General History of the Things of New Spain, Fray Bernardino de Sahagun

1952 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 179 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Kubler ◽  
Arthur J. O. Anderson ◽  
Charles E. Dibble
Keyword(s):  
New Spain ◽  
Bernardino De Sahagun ◽  
History Of ◽  
Florentine Codex

Sahagún's “Florentine Codex”, a little known Aztecan natural history of the Valley of Mexico

2006 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 302-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry M. Reeves
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Natural History ◽  
English Translation ◽  
New Spain ◽  
Bernardino De Sahagun ◽  
History Of ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Hernan Cortes ◽  
Florentine Codex

Franciscan missionary Fray Bernardino de Sahagún arrived in New Spain (Mexico) in 1529 to proselytize Aztecs surviving the Conquest, begun by Hernán Cortés in 1519. About 1558 he commenced his huge opus “Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España” completed in Latin–Nahuatl manuscript in 1569. The best surviving version, the “Florentine Codex”, 1579, in Spanish–Nahuatl, is the basis for the editions published since 1829. The first English translation was issued in 13 volumes between 1950 and 1982, and the first facsimile was published in 1979. Book 11, “Earthly things”, is a comprehensive natural history of the Valley of Mexico based on pre-Cortésian Aztec knowledge. Sahagún's work, largely unknown among English-speaking biologists, is an untapped treasury of information about Aztecan natural history. It also establishes the Aztecs as the preeminent pioneering naturalists of North America, and Sahagún and his colleagues as their documentarians.

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