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Florentine Codex: Books 4 and 5: Book 4 and 5: The Soothsayers, the Omens (Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain)
Bernardino de Sahagún
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Description for Florentine Codex: Books 4 and 5: Book 4 and 5: The Soothsayers, the Omens (Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain)
Paperback. Num Pages: 210 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 3JB; HBJK; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 277 x 213 x 13. Weight in Grams: 658.
Two of the world’s leading scholars of the Aztec language and culture have translated Sahagún’s monumental and encyclopedic study of native life in Mexico at the time of the Spanish Conquest. This immense undertaking is the first complete translation into any language of Sahagún’s Nahuatl text, and represents one of the most distinguished contributions in the fields of anthropology, ethnography, and linguistics. Written between 1540 and 1585, the Florentine Codex (so named because the manuscript has been part of the Laurentian Library’s collections since at least 1791) is the most authoritative statement we have of the Aztecs’ lifeways and traditions—a ... Read more
Two of the world’s leading scholars of the Aztec language and culture have translated Sahagún’s monumental and encyclopedic study of native life in Mexico at the time of the Spanish Conquest. This immense undertaking is the first complete translation into any language of Sahagún’s Nahuatl text, and represents one of the most distinguished contributions in the fields of anthropology, ethnography, and linguistics. Written between 1540 and 1585, the Florentine Codex (so named because the manuscript has been part of the Laurentian Library’s collections since at least 1791) is the most authoritative statement we have of the Aztecs’ lifeways and traditions—a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
210
Place of Publication
Salt Lake City, United States
ISBN
9781607811602
SKU
V9781607811602
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99-1
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