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The work of Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590)
The work of Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590) constitutes one of the most renowned historic sources of ancient Mexico. He was a pioneer of modern anthropology and showed singular commitment, reticence and intelligence. His work contains the Matritense Codex, a manuscript product of the great ethnographic research in the New Spain of the mid-16th century and the Florentine Codex, a manuscript in two columns with texts in Náhuatl and Spanish.
Registration Year: 2015
Submission Year: 2014
Submitted by: Italy, Mexico, Spain
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Florentine Codex. Appendix. Huitzilopochtli, Painal, Tezcatlipoca (Espejo Humeante), Tlaloc.
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Florentine Codex. Book 2. Tlauauanaliztli Ceremony. This spectacle was held at the feast tlacaxipeoaliztli. Zacapan nemanaliztle Ceremony.
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Florentine Codex. Book 4. Embellish the oratorios. Covers the images. They offer food and copal.
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Florentine Codex. Book 7. They carry the fire to the chambers. Renew their belongings.
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Florentine Codex. Merchants divided amont themselves their canvases. Merchants on track. Merchants and their goods.
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Matritense Codex. Folio 51r. Lords of Mexico. Acamapichtli. Huitzilihuitl. Chimalpopoca. Izcoatl. Mctezuma Ilhuicamina. Axayacatl.
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Madrid Codex. Fol 254r. Feast Atamalcualiztli.
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Matritense Codex. Fol 282r. Sun, Moon, Solar Eclipse, Lunar Eclipse, Constellations, Comets.
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