Florentine Codex: Volume 9
Book 9: The Merchants
Published on 1. January 2002
Book
Hardback
108 pages
978-0-87480-006-7 (ISBN)
Description
Two of the world's leading scholars of the Aztec language and culture have translated SahagUn's monumental and encyclopedic study of native life in Mexico at the time of the Spanish Conquest. This immense undertaking is the first complete translation into any language of SahagUn's Nahuatl text, and represents one of the most distinguished contributions in the fields of anthropology, ethnography, and linguistics.
Written between 1540 and 1585, the Florentine Codex (so named because the manuscript has been part of the Laurentian Library's collections since at least 1791) is the most authoritative statement we have of the Aztecs' lifeways and traditions-a rich and intimate yet panoramic view of a doomed people.
The Florentine Codex is divided by subject area into twelve books and includes over 2,000 illustrations drawn by Nahua artists in the sixteenth century.
Book Nine begins with how commerce grew in Mexico from the trade of only feathers to jewelry, precious stones, animal skins, embroidered clothing, and chocolate. It discusses how the merchants prepare for a journey and the celebrations that take place when they arrive home safely. This book also lists different types of merchants, such as lapidaries, who worked with precious stones, and ornamenters, who made feather articles.
Written between 1540 and 1585, the Florentine Codex (so named because the manuscript has been part of the Laurentian Library's collections since at least 1791) is the most authoritative statement we have of the Aztecs' lifeways and traditions-a rich and intimate yet panoramic view of a doomed people.
The Florentine Codex is divided by subject area into twelve books and includes over 2,000 illustrations drawn by Nahua artists in the sixteenth century.
Book Nine begins with how commerce grew in Mexico from the trade of only feathers to jewelry, precious stones, animal skins, embroidered clothing, and chocolate. It discusses how the merchants prepare for a journey and the celebrations that take place when they arrive home safely. This book also lists different types of merchants, such as lapidaries, who worked with precious stones, and ornamenters, who made feather articles.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Salt Lake City
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
610 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87480-006-7 (9780874800067)
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Content
1. Telleth of those who founded commerce in Mexico and Tlatilulco
2. Here is told how the merchants began their office, in which they were considered [and] honored as principal [merchants]
3. Telleth of the offerings which the merchants made when they were going to set out somewhere
4. Telleth what the merchants did when they reached where they were going
5. Telleth how the merchants were given the name of disguised merchants
6. Telleth how the merchants made offerings when they reached their homes, whence they had gone, called the washing of feet
7. Telleth how these merchants at that time held a banquet
8. Telleth how he who held the banquet performed the act of offering, to pay the debt [to the gods]
9. Telleth what they did when it was about to dawn, and what they did when the sun arose
10. Here is told of still another feast celebration (which was called "the bathing")
11. Here is told what was done when the holding of a feast was determined
12. Here is told what the one who determined the holding of a feast prepared in his city
13. Here is told how they began the feast and what was then done
14. Here is told how they slew the slaves at the time that they observed the feast day
15. Here are mentioned all the makers of fine ornaments called master craftsmen: the gold workers and lapidaries
16. Here is told how the craftsmen who cast precious metals fashioned their wares
17. Here are discussed the lapidaries who worked precious stones
18. Here are mentioned the inhabitants of Amantlan, ornamenters who worked precious feathers and many other kinds of feathers
19. Here is told how the inhabitants of Amantlan, ornamenters who made feathers articles, celebrated a feast day to their gods
20. Telleth the manner in which these inhabitants of Amantlan, the ornamenters, worked feathers for adornment
21. Here is told how those of Amantlan, the ornamenters, performed their task
2. Here is told how the merchants began their office, in which they were considered [and] honored as principal [merchants]
3. Telleth of the offerings which the merchants made when they were going to set out somewhere
4. Telleth what the merchants did when they reached where they were going
5. Telleth how the merchants were given the name of disguised merchants
6. Telleth how the merchants made offerings when they reached their homes, whence they had gone, called the washing of feet
7. Telleth how these merchants at that time held a banquet
8. Telleth how he who held the banquet performed the act of offering, to pay the debt [to the gods]
9. Telleth what they did when it was about to dawn, and what they did when the sun arose
10. Here is told of still another feast celebration (which was called "the bathing")
11. Here is told what was done when the holding of a feast was determined
12. Here is told what the one who determined the holding of a feast prepared in his city
13. Here is told how they began the feast and what was then done
14. Here is told how they slew the slaves at the time that they observed the feast day
15. Here are mentioned all the makers of fine ornaments called master craftsmen: the gold workers and lapidaries
16. Here is told how the craftsmen who cast precious metals fashioned their wares
17. Here are discussed the lapidaries who worked precious stones
18. Here are mentioned the inhabitants of Amantlan, ornamenters who worked precious feathers and many other kinds of feathers
19. Here is told how the inhabitants of Amantlan, ornamenters who made feathers articles, celebrated a feast day to their gods
20. Telleth the manner in which these inhabitants of Amantlan, the ornamenters, worked feathers for adornment
21. Here is told how those of Amantlan, the ornamenters, performed their task