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The Digitized Florentine Codex

Indigenous Voices of Mexico in The Digital Age

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Lunar eclipse in Book 7 of the Florentine Codex, 1577. (Courtesy of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, and by permission of MiBACT.)

Presented by Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos

Thursday, November 7, 2024
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM (Pacific Time)Bunche Hall, Rm 10383 & online

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In 2016, the Getty Research Institute (GRI) initiated a major collaborative project with the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence to transform the Florentine Codex into an enhanced digital critical edition. The Digital Florentine Codex (DFC), launched in October of 2023, presents the newly digitized codex alongside its bilingual transcriptions and translations. Both the texts and images are searchable, achieved by tagging images with multilingual keywords drawn from the manuscript's unique linguistic content. One of the co-founders of the DFC initiative will outline the website's design, content and capabilities and highlight a few of the breakthroughs it has made in our understanding of the codex.

Speaker

Professor Kevin Terraciano


Sponsor(s): Latin American Institute, Center for Mexican American Studies at UTA