One of the most understated treasures in the current exhibition at the Museum of International Folk Art, The Red That Colored the World, is the Florentine Codex. The book is opened to the pages that ...

Correction: The original version of this article incorrectly stated that the Florentine Codex is translated into Nahuatl, Spanish and English. In fact, digital version of the codex contains English ...

The Aztec world didn’t disappear into legend. It left records on screenfold books made from bark paper and animal hide. Reading them today matters because they are the Aztecs’ own self-portrait, ...

pt. 1. Introduction and indices -- pt. 2. Book 1, The gods -- pt. 3. Book 2, The ceremonies -- pt. 4. Book 3, The origin of the gods -- pt. 5. Book 4, The soothsayers ...