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Florentine Codex
The Florentine Codex is a sixteenth-century encyclopedic work on the Aztec world compiled by the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún with Nahua informants. Written in Nahuatl and Spanish and richly illustrated, it is one of the most important sources on the society, religion and conquest of the Aztec Empire.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Florentine Codex. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/florentine-codex
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- “Florentine Codex.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/florentine-codex. Accessed .
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- The Epoch Institute. “Florentine Codex.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/florentine-codex.
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- The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Florentine Codex’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/florentine-codex (Accessed: ).
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