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Historia de Mexico. Libro 1o / por B. Sahagun.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 700 Item 195
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Bernardino, de Sahagún, 1499-1590.
- Standardized Title:
- Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Nahuatl
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Aztecs--Rites and ceremonies.
- Aztecs.
- Nahuatl language--Texts.
- Nahuatl language.
- Language and languages.
- Indians of Mexico--Languages.
- Mexico.
- Indians of Mexico--Languages--Early works to 1800.
- Indians of Mexico.
- Mexico--Languages--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- Texts.
- Codices.
- Manuscripts, Mexican.
- Penn Provenance:
- Copied from the 16th-century Códice Florentino in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, for Daniel Garrison Brinton.
- From the collection of Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).
- Physical Description:
- 120 leaves : paper, color illustrations; 166 x 115 (124 x 94) mm bound to 173 x 143 mm
- Contained In:
- Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 195
- Place of Publication:
- Florence, 1889.
- Language Note:
- Nahuatl, with title page in Spanish and English.
- Biography/History:
- Born in 1499; student at the University of Salamanca; entered the Franciscan order in 1524.
- Summary:
- A copy of Nahuatl text from the first book of Bernardino de Sahagún's Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España, a work in 12 books on Aztec culture, followed by 28 facsimile plates of mythological or ritual figures or scenes.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (f. 1).
- Foliation: Paper, 120; text, 1-91, foliation in ink, upper center recto; illustrations, 1-21, modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto, and I-VII, contemporary foliation in ink, upper right of image. All leaves and plates are mounted on guards.
- Layout: Written in 11-17 long lines, ruled in pencil.
- Decoration: 28 illustrations, drawn in ink and colored with watercolor; 21 of the illustrations show single mythological figures carrying shields and weapons, with names written in ink; 7 illustrations at the end appear to show ritual scenes with groups.
- Binding: Late 19th-century gold-tooled leather; spine marked Sahagun, Lib. I, MS.
- Origin: Copied in Florence, Italy, 1889.
- Cited in:
- Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 326 (no. 3660).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 195
- OCLC:
- 155932847
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