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In August 1576, in the midst of an outbreak of the plague, the Spanish Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún and twenty-two indigenous artists locked themselves inside the school of Santa Cruz de Tlaltelolco in Mexico City with a mission: to create nothing less than the first illustrated encyclopedia of the New World. Today this twelve-volume manuscript is preserved in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence and is widely known as the Florentine Codex. A monumental achievement, the Florentine Codex is the single most important artistic and historical document for studying the peoples and cultures of pre-Hispanic and colonial Central Mexico. It reflects both indigenous and Spanish traditions of writing and painting, including parallel columns of text in Spanish and Nahuatl and more than two thousand watercolor illustrations prepared in European and Aztec pictorial styles. This volume reveals the complex meanings inherent in the selection of the pigments used in the manuscript, offering a fascinating look into a previously hidden symbolic language. Drawing on cutting edge approaches in art history, anthropology, and the material sciences, the book sheds new light on one of the world's great manuscripts - and on a pivotal moment in the early modern Americas.

Illumination of books and manuscripts --- Pigments. --- Artists' materials --- Manuscripts, Mexican. --- Technique. --- Códice florentino. --- Illuminated manuscripts --- Manuscripts --- Manuscripts, Illuminated --- Miniatures (Illumination of books and manuscripts) --- Ornamental alphabets --- Illustration of books --- Alphabets --- Initials --- Paleography --- Scriptoria --- Mexican manuscripts --- Art --- Art material --- Art materials --- Art supplies --- Painters' materials --- Paint materials --- Coloring matter --- Paint --- Equipment and supplies --- Codex Florentinus --- Florentine codex --- Manuscrito florentino --- Sequera manuscript --- 091.31:75.056 --- 667.622.3 --- 091 <72 MEXICO> --- 091 <45> --- 912 "16" --- 912 "16" Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699 --- 912 "16" Cartography. Maps. Atlasses--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699 --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699 --- Cartography. Maps. Atlasses--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699 --- 091 <72 MEXICO> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Mexico--MEXICO --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Mexico--MEXICO --- 667.622.3 Organic pigments --- Organic pigments --- 091.31:75.056 Verluchte handschriften: techniek --- Verluchte handschriften: techniek --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Italië --- 912 "15" --- 912 "15" Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--16e eeuw. Periode 1500-1599 --- 912 "15" Cartography. Maps. Atlasses--16e eeuw. Periode 1500-1599 --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--16e eeuw. Periode 1500-1599 --- Cartography. Maps. Atlasses--16e eeuw. Periode 1500-1599 --- 091 <45> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Italië --- Pigments --- Manuscripts, Mexican --- Technique