Arts and Cultures of Ancient Mesoamerica and the Andes

The digitized codex of Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva Espana is presented along with Nahuatl and Spanish transcriptions and English translations of both texts. It unlocks the manuscript’s content by making the texts and images searchable. A collaboration between the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, the Getty Research Institute and scholars from Italy, Mexico, and the U.S.

An encyclopedic work about the people and culture of central Mexico compiled by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499–1590), a Franciscan missionary who arrived in Mexico in 1529, eight years after completion of the Spanish conquest by Hernan Cortés. Includes more than 2,400 illustrations from the period. Part of the World Digital Library, on the Library of Congress website.