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BOTURINI CODEX The Boturini Codex was painted by an unknown Aztec author or authors some time between 1530 and 1541, roughly a decade the Spanish Conquest Of Mexico . Pictorial in nature, it tells the story of the legendary Aztec journey from Aztlán to the Valley Of Mexico . Rather than employing separate pages, the authors used one long sheet of paper, fan-folded into 21½ pages. Also known as “Tira de la Peregrinación” ("The Strip Showing the Travels"), it is named after one of its first European owners, Lorenzo Boturini Benaducci (1702 – 1751). FLORENTINE CODEX The Florentine Codex is the name given to the 12 documents created under the purview of Bernardino De Sahagún between perhaps 1540 and 1585. It was originally written in Nahuatl but this version has been lost, perhaps destroyed by the Spanish authorities who confiscated Sahagún's manuscripts. The oldest extant version is a Spanish language summary of the Nahuatl version, and the term "Florentine Codex" usually refers to Sahagún's later revised version from 1585. It is also known as ''Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España''. AUBIN CODEX The Aubin Codex is a pictorial history of the Aztecs from their departure from Aztlán through the Spanish Conquest to the early Spanish colonial period, ending in 1607. Most likely begun in 1576, it is possible that Fray Diego Durán supervised its preparation, since it was published in 1867 as ''Historia de las Indias de Nueva-España y isles de Tierra Firme'', listing Durán as the author. Also called "Manuscrito de 1576" (“The Manuscript of 1576”), this codex is held by the Bibliothèque National in France. SEE ALSO
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