11 Facts About Florentine Codex

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Florentine Codex is a 16th-century ethnographic research study in Mesoamerica by the Spanish Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagun.

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Florentine Codex worked on this project from 1545 up until his death in 1590.

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Three-volume manuscript of the Florentine Codex has been intensely analyzed and compared to earlier drafts found in Madrid.

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English translation of the complete Nahuatl text of all twelve volumes of the Florentine Codex was a decades-long work of Arthur J O Anderson and Charles Dibble, an important contribution to the scholarship on Mesoamerican ethno-history.

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Florentine Codex is a complex document, assembled, edited, and appended over decades.

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The images in the Florentine Codex were created as an integral element of the larger work.

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Florentine Codex's did this by analyzing the different ways that forms of body were drawn, such as the eyes, profile, and proportions of the body.

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Florentine Codex did so in the native language of Nahuatl, while comparing the answers from different sources of information.

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Florentine Codex's interest was likely related to the high death rate at the time from plagues and diseases.

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Florentine Codex is one of the most remarkable social science research projects ever conducted.

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Florentine Codex reported the worldview of people of Central Mexico as they understood it, rather than describing the society exclusively from the European perspective.

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