The General History of the Things of New Spain, known as Florentine Codex, was compiled, with the aid of native informants, by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún in Mexico, between 1558 and 1577. The manuscript, conserved at the Biblioteca Laurenziana in Florence, is divided into 12 books and is written both in Nahuatl and Spanish. Its encyclopedic coverage of native Nahua’s customs makes it one of our most valuable sources for the study of ancient and early colonial cultures of the Valley of Mexico. This manuscript is a contribution to the knowledge of the materials and techniques used by Sahagún and co-workers. We reports the main results of the first investigations ever performed directly on the pages and painted drawings of the Florentine Codex by using a sophisticated instrumentation kindly made available from Bruker (Germany), recently developed in their R&D laboratories. We analyzed in a non-invasive way, using X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) and micro-reflectance FT-IR spectroscopy, the colors of 102 samples from 48 painted drawings (7 from book 1, 1 from book 2, 6 from book 4, 10 from book 7, 7 from book 8, 1 from book 9, 13 from book 11, 3 from book 12).

On the Nature of the Pigments of the Florentine Codex / Rodorico Giorgi; Marcia Carolina Arroyo; David Chelazzi; Diana Magaloni Kerpel; Francesca Ridi; Piero Baglioni. - STAMPA. - (2011), pp. 78-105.

On the Nature of the Pigments of the Florentine Codex

GIORGI, RODORICO;ARROYO, MARCIA CAROLINA;CHELAZZI, DAVID;RIDI, FRANCESCA;BAGLIONI, PIERO
2011

Abstract

The General History of the Things of New Spain, known as Florentine Codex, was compiled, with the aid of native informants, by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún in Mexico, between 1558 and 1577. The manuscript, conserved at the Biblioteca Laurenziana in Florence, is divided into 12 books and is written both in Nahuatl and Spanish. Its encyclopedic coverage of native Nahua’s customs makes it one of our most valuable sources for the study of ancient and early colonial cultures of the Valley of Mexico. This manuscript is a contribution to the knowledge of the materials and techniques used by Sahagún and co-workers. We reports the main results of the first investigations ever performed directly on the pages and painted drawings of the Florentine Codex by using a sophisticated instrumentation kindly made available from Bruker (Germany), recently developed in their R&D laboratories. We analyzed in a non-invasive way, using X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) and micro-reflectance FT-IR spectroscopy, the colors of 102 samples from 48 painted drawings (7 from book 1, 1 from book 2, 6 from book 4, 10 from book 7, 7 from book 8, 1 from book 9, 13 from book 11, 3 from book 12).
2011
9780674064621
Colors Between Two Worlds - The Florentine codex of Bernardino de Sahagun
78
105
Rodorico Giorgi; Marcia Carolina Arroyo; David Chelazzi; Diana Magaloni Kerpel; Francesca Ridi; Piero Baglioni
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