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In the sixteenth century, the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún and a team of indigenous grammarians, scribes, and painters completed decades of work on an extraordinary encyclopedic project titled General History of the Things of New Spain, known as the Florentine Codex (1575–1577). Now housed in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence and bound in three lavishly illustrated volumes, the codex is a remarkable product of cultural exchange in the early Americas. In this edited volume,
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- Author
- Jeanette Favrot Peterson; Kevin Terraciano; University of Texas Press
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781477318409
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- History, History & Criticism, Art
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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