Native Painters of an European Book

Abstract

The analysis of the pictorial content of the veintena section of Fray Bernardino de Sahagún’s Primeros Memoriales may lead to new conclusions about the artists and the process of creating these illustrations. Comparing the illustrations with the description of the festivals in the Primeros Memoriales and the Florentine Codex, identification of scenes and persons and their attributes depicted in the illustrations may also shed interesting light on the affiliation of the manuscript, whose provenance is still under discussion.

Keywords

• Aztecs
• Nahuas
• New Spain
• Bernardino de Sahagún
• Primeros Memoriales
• pictographic manuscritps