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"After seven years and the efforts of dozens of specialists from around the
world, the Florentine Codex, the most important manuscript surviving from early
colonial Mexico and rich in pre-colonial Indigenous knowledge, is now available
to explore online with new translations and features.
The Florentine Codex (so named because it resides at the Biblioteca Medicea
Laurenziana in Florence, Italy) is a 16th-century manuscript that details, in
both the Spanish and Nahuatl languages, the culture and history of the Mexica
(Aztec) people, including the invasion of Mexico City by the Spaniards and
their Indigenous allies. The Digital Florentine Codex reveals the manuscript’s
contents by providing access to new and previously published Nahuatl and
Spanish language transcriptions, English and Spanish translations, as well as
easily searchable texts and images.
“This initiative, which brought together and generated new data about this
invaluable manuscript, could not have been accomplished without the generous
collaboration by our institutional partners and the expertise of many
colleagues,” said Mary Miller, director of the Getty Research Institute (GRI).
“We are especially grateful to the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence,
which supported the new digitization of the codex for enhanced world-wide
distribution.”"
Via Esther Schindler.
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