"Based on the translation and comparative analysis of three short Nahuatl texts currently preserved in different manuscripts, this article reconstructs a part of the content that might have composed a work, known as the ...

"In the Primeros memoriales by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún and his collaborators there is a group of brief texts on the ways that the nahua allegedly used to speak. These texts are particularly defined by being the speech ...

This article presents the paleographic transcription and Spanish translation of Chapters 3 to 6 of the “Divinatory Art” section of the Florentine Codex, a foundational ethnographic work compiled by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún ...

In the work of Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, the prologues and addresses to the reader can be read, autonomously, as a pedagogical program. In this article, the author explores the “prólogos” and “advertencias” that precede ...

In this article I propose a reading of Sahagún’s Coloquiosy Psalmodia Christiana as rhetorical experiments to translate particular concepts and doctrinal elements to a new context of epistemological domination. I will ...

The 1561 letter from the Nahua governors of Azcapotzalco to Philip II has long been recognised as a crucial source for the history of the Tepanec empire under Tezozomoc, which was a model for later Aztec domination. The ...

Parallelism is a resource that can be found in Nahuatl evangelization texts and it is pervasive in the oral tradition of various peoples, including the indigenous people of pre-Hispanic Mexico. The aim of the paper is to ...

This paper presents the paleographic transcription and translation from Nahuatl to Spanish of the first two chapters of Book VIII of the Florentine Codex, a 16th-century manuscript compiled by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún ...

Bien conocido es que los escritos de fray Bernardino de Sahagún —los de su Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva España y aquellos otros con los textos en náhuatl, fruto de su investigación— estuvieron por largo tiempo ...

Los textos reproducidos en los tres trabajos anteriores de esta serie forman una unidad en cuanto al propósito de fray Bernardino de Sahagún. Tuvo el franciscano el deseo de integrar cuerpos documentales de medicina indígena, ...