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Florentine CodexBernardino de Sahagún

Indigenous and Ancient Religions

Florentine Codex

General History of the Things of New Spain

by Bernardino de Sahagún · Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (trans.)

The great encyclopedic work compiled by the Franciscan friar Sahagún with Nahua scholars and elders, recording Aztec religion, ritual, society and natural history in Nahuatl and Spanish. Its twelve books include descriptions of the gods, the festivals of the solar year and the conquest. Anderson and Dibble's English translation appeared between 1950 and 1982.

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