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Out Of Another Plague And Quarantine Came A Priceless Record Of Pre-Conquest Mexico

WORDS Posted: March 27, 2020 9:04 am

“It is the middle of a plague — ‘a pestilence so great and universal, that already it has been three months since it started, and many have died and many more continue to die.’ This does little to stop a group of scholars who have sealed themselves off from the world in a Mexico City convent, where they toil on a series of volumes devoted to indigenous knowledge.” Carolina Miranda recounts the story of the Historia General de las cosas de la Nueva España, a 12-volume manuscript from 1576 now known as the Florentine Codex. – Los Angeles Times

WORDS Published: 03.26.20

Read the story in Los Angeles Times Published: 03.26.20

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