Codex Florentinus
The Codex Florentinus ( Latin ; Spanish Códice Florentino ) is one of two editions of the Historia General de las Cosas de la Nueva España by Bernardino de Sahagún (1499–1590), in which the knowledge received about the culture that was declining at the beginning of the 16th century the Aztec was detained. The codex is named after the place where it was kept in Florence.
description
The codex was created between 1540 and 1585 and comprises 12 books with 1846 illustrations. It is a reprocessing of destroyed source material. Primary sources were recordings of conversations and interviews in Tlatelolco , Texcoco and Tenochtitlan , the methodology of which can be considered groundbreaking for later ethnography due to the demanding selection of interlocutors and their reflective presentation , even if the ultimate goal was the proselytizing of the Aztecs.
origin
The Codex Florentino is now kept in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence .
content
The Florentine Codex describes the conquest and missionary work of Mexico, the social structure of the Aztec society as well as Mesoamerican gods and moral concepts.
literature
- Enrique Florescano : Sahagún y el nacimiento de la cronica mestiza. In: Relaciones. 91, Conaculta 2002, volume 23.
- Miguel León-Portilla : Aztec Thought and Culture. University of Oklahoma Press, 1990.
- Roland Bernhard: History myths about Hispanic America. Discovery, conquest and colonization in German and Austrian textbooks of the 21st century. (= Eckert. Die Schriftenreihe. Studies of the Georg Eckert Institute for international educational media research 134) V&R Unipress, Göttingen 2013, page 118ff.
Web links
- Book I: The Gods on World Digital Library
- Book II: The Ceremonies on World Digital Library
- Book III: The Origin of the Gods on World Digital Library
- Book IV: The Art of Divination on World Digital Library
- Book V: Omens and Superstitions on World Digital Library
- Book VI: Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy on World Digital Library
- Book VII: The Sun, Moon, and Stars, and the Binding of the Years on World Digital Library
- Book VIII: Kings and Lords on World Digital Library
- Book IX: The Merchants on World Digital Library
- Book X: The People, Their Virtues and Vices, and Other Nations on World Digital Library
- Book XI: Natural Things on World Digital Library
- Book XII: The Conquest of Mexico on World Digital Library