28 May 2025 / 8 Alligator
Welcome to our GIF Offerings
If you want to see the Aztecs get animated, read on....! We’re beginning a new section here of animated GIFs we’ve made of just a few of the 2,468 illustrations from the monumental Florentine Codex compiled in the mid-16th century by Bernardino de Sahagún with the help of dedicated Nahua scribes and informants. We’ll be going through all twelve books, choosing images that we think cry out to be set in motion...
The example seen here is from Book 8 of the Codex, showing a group of Mexica musicians and dancers performing.
NOTE 1: All English text is taken from the pioneering work Florentine Codex - General History of the Things of New Spain by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún in Thirteen Parts, translated by Arthur J.O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble, published by the School of American Research and the University of Utah, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1953-1982.
NOTE 2: All original images from the Florentine Codex (original in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence) scanned from our own copy of the Club Internacional del Libro 3-volume facsimile edition, Madrid, 1994.
This is a work in progress...........!
