Three Texts in One: Book XII of the Florentine Codex.

A sixteenth-century manuscript known as the Florentine Codex is an outstanding example of graphic pluralism in early colonial Mexico. The codex consists of twelve books on many aspects of Nahua culture and language, presented in parallel columns of Nahuatl- and Castilian-language alphabetic text, in...

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Published in:Ethnohistory Vol. 57; no. 1; pp. 51 - 73
Main Author: Terraciano, Kevin
Format: Article
Published: Duke University Press Winter2010
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