Florentine Codex
Overview
Twelve books of bilingual Nahuatl and Spanish text and 2,000 illustrations compiled between 1545 and 1590 by the friar Bernardino de Sahagun with Nahua students and elders. The fullest record of Aztec civilization, its parallel columns preserve an indigenous voice of early colonial Mexico.
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