The Florentine Codex - Historia general de las cosas de nueva España

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Sahagún originally titled it La Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva España (in English: The General History of the Things of New Spain).After a translation mistake, it was given the name Historia general de las Cosas de Nueva España. The best-preserved manuscript is commonly referred to as the Florentine Codex ***************** Historia general de las cosas de nueva España (General history of the things of New Spain) is an encyclopedic work about the people and culture of central Mexico compiled by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499--1590), a Franciscan missionary who arrived in Mexico in 1529, eight years after completion of the Spanish conquest by Hernan Cortés. Commonly called the Florentine Codex. Sahagún began conducting research into indigenous cultures in the 1540s, using a methodology that scholars consider to be a precursor to modern anthropological field technique. His motives were primarily religious: he believed that to convert the natives to Christianity and eradicate their devotion to false gods, it was necessary to understand those gods and the hold they had on the Aztec people. Sahagún was repelled by much of native culture, but he also came to admire many qualities of the Aztecs. As he wrote in the prologue to Book I of his work, the Mexicans "are held to be barbarians and of very little worth; in truth, however, in matters of culture and refinement, they are a step ahead of other nations that presume to be quite politic." Sahagún gained the assistance of two important indigenous groups: the elders of a number of towns in central Mexico (principales) and Nahua students and former students at the College of Santa Cruz in Tlatelolco, where Sahagún worked for much of his time in Mexico. The principales answered questionnaires prepared by Sahagún about their culture and religion, and their responses were recorded in their own pictorial form of writing. The Nahua students interpreted the images and expanded the answers, phonetically transcribing Nahuatl using Latin letters. Sahagún then reviewed the Nahuatl text and added his own Spanish translation. The whole process took almost 30 years and finally was completed in 1575--77, when Sahagún had a new and complete copy of the manuscript prepared. It then was taken to Spain by Fray Rodrigo de Sequera, commissary general of the Franciscans and a supporter of Sahagún's work. The 12 books of the codex originally were bound in four volumes but later rebound into three. The work is arranged in two columns: on the right is the original Nahuatl text, on the left is Sahagún's Spanish translation. The 2,468 magnificent illustrations, made by the students, are mostly in the left-hand column, where the text is shorter. The illustrations combine the syntactic and symbolic traits of the ancient Nahua tradition of painting-writing with the formal qualities of European Renaissance painting.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lots of Beautiful Illustrations and Pictures. These OLD Books has been professionally compiled in high quality and preserved forever on DVD data disc for your enjoyment You can READ, TRANSFER, COPY, CUT, PASTE, SAVE & ZOOM IN on any text, diagrams or illustrations. The pictures you see in this auction were taken from this DVD This DVD MUST be read on a computer or a laptop and It will NOT work on regular DVD Player***************************The Complete List of the VolumesHistoria general de las cosas de nueva España - Volume 1Historia general de las cosas de nueva España - Volume 2Historia general de las cosas de nueva España - Volume 3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Please make sure to check our other OLD eBooks collections Lists Each collection is unique and take advantage of our Multiple Purchase DiscountsMultiple Purchase DiscountsIf you purchase 3 of our OLD book collections you will automatically qualify for a free collection of your choice.Please use the eBay messaging service to let us know which collection you’d like totally free of charge!Returns & Exchange PolicyDue to the nature of the item being a DVD and it can be copied, there is no return on this item, but if the item is faulty please contact US via eBay's messaging service for the returns address. 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