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The Florentine Codex is a manuscript, originally in four volumes, of which only three remain today. It includes the Nahuatl text with a Spanish version, sometimes summarized and sometimes with comments, of the texts that Fray Bernardino de Sahagún collected from his indigenous informants in the 16th century.
This codex, so named because it is kept in the Laurenciana Medicea Library in Florence, Italy, constitutes a copy that Fray Bernardo de Sahagún sent to Rome with Father Jacobo de Testera to be delivered to the Pope in 1580.
The manuscript, in addition to the Nahuatl and Spanish texts, includes a large number of illustrations, most in color, in which some European influence is perceived and various subjects are represented. Francisco del Paso y Troncoso published it, in the form of plates in Madrid in 1905 and later, in 1979, the Mexican government, through the General Archive of the Nation, brought to light a very faithful facsimile reproduction of the codex, as is currently preserved.
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