Florentine Codex (Florentine Codex / Sahagún compilation)

Type Object Region Mexico Time 1540–1585

A multi-volume ethnographic manuscript compiled in New Spain from about 1540 under the Spanish Franciscan Bernardino de Sahagún, recording Aztec reli…

Timeline

1540–1560Around the College of Santa Cruz, Texcoco · MexicoSahagún organized Nahuatl informants and indigenous painters at Texcoco and elsewhere, systematically collecting oral material on Aztec myths, rituals, flora and fauna, and social institutions, forming drafts and illustrated base texts.
c. 1569–1585Mexico City · MexicoThe final version took a twelve-volume structure, with Nahuatl originals set alongside Spanish translations, illustrations and text cross-verifying each other, covering deities, rituals, moral philosophy, natural history, and daily life.

Sources

Florentine Codex https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667833/
General History of the Things of New Spain (Florentine Codex) — Bernardino de Sahagún