General history of the things of new spain by fray bernardino. Florentine codex start download portable document format pdf and ebooks. Published by the school of american research and the university of utah. Introductions, sahaguns prologues and interpolations, general bibliography, general indices. The codex is quite large with 1,200 folios pages and 2,468 painted illustrations. It documents the culture, religious cosmology worldview, ritual practices. Documentary heritage submitted by mexico, italy and spain and recommended for inclusion in the memory. He attended the university of salamanca, where he was exposed to the currents of renaissance humanism.
Read and learn for free about the following article. Presenting these documents on a single website will open a whole. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Fullsize color reproduction of the entire original document, bernardino sahagun. By giving the aztec gods a grecoroman gloss, sahagun distanced the deities. Anderson, salt lake city, university of utah press and school of american research, 19501982, 12 vol. Ebook florentine codex as pdf download portable document. The nahua accounts concentrate on those things that were new and strange like. His work contains the matritense codex, a manuscript product of the great. Two of the worlds leading scholars of the aztec language and culture have translated sahaguns monumental.
Twentyninth chapter, where it is said how, at the time the spaniards left mexico, there. Spanish exploration and colonization of north america 9. General history of the things of new spain by fray. General history of the things of new spain the most famous extant manuscript of the historia general is the florentine codex. The general history of the things of new spain, by. Podras ver y comprar sus nuevos y ultimos libros, novedades, packs especiales, descargar su libro digital en pdf o epub, obras y sagas del autor. During this period, the university at salamanca was strongly influenced by erasmus, and was a center for spanish franciscan intellectual life. Translated from the aztec into english, with notes and illustrations, by arthur j. This site is like a library, use search box in the. This edition is in fact a translation by mauricio j.
World digital library adds florentine codex library of congress. In fact, the psalmodia christiana is the only work that fray bernardino ever saw in print. Mixco of leon portillas book, first published in spanish in 1999, as part of the worldwide commemoration of sahaguns fivehundredth birthday. Sahagun is a franciscan missionary who arrived in mexico in 1529. Monographs of the school of american research, santa fe, new mexico.