In the sixteenth century, the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahag n and a team of indigenous grammarians, scribes, and painters completed decades of work on an extraordinary encyclopedic project titled General History of the Things of New Spain , known as the Florentine Codex (1575-1577) .
Now housed in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence and bound in three lavishly illustrated volumes, the codex is a remarkable product of cultural exchange in the early Americas..
In the sixteenth century, the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahag n and a team of indigenous grammarians, scribes, and painters completed decades of work on an extraordinary encyclopedic project titled General History of the Things of New Spain , known as the Florentine Codex (1575-1577)
