An unabridged translation of a 16th century Dominican friar's history of the Aztec world before the Spanish conquest, based on a now-lost Nahuatl chronicle and

A celebration of one of the most famous 16th-century manuscripts, The Florentine Codex.

Presents an encyclopedic study of native life in Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest.

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)

In Book Twelve of the Florentine Codex, the encyclopedic work on ancient Mexico of Franciscan friar, Bernardino de Sahagún (1499–1590), he focuses on the his