Images extracted Florentine Codex vol3 0636 300dpi
Artista: Bernardino de Sahagún (coord.)
Siglo XVI · México
Colección: Códice Florentino
This image displays a manuscript page from the Florentine Codex, a key 16th-century ethnographic compendium coordinated by Bernardino de Sahagún. It features bilingual text in two columns, likely Nahuatl and Spanish or Latin, accompanied by a decorated initial letter and an illustration of a plant or tree. The style combines European manuscript calligraphy and format with indigenous iconographic and thematic elements, reflecting the monumental undertaking of documenting the cultural and natural world of pre-Hispanic Mexico.
manuscrito ilustracion-botanica siglo-xv letras-capitales caligrafia texto-antiguo letra-capital-decorada ilustracion-de-arbol
