Primeros Memoriales (Facsimile Edition), and, Paleography of Nahuatl Text and English Translation - two volume set de Fray Bernardino de Sahagun; and Thelma D. Sullivan - 1997

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Norman, OK: University of of Oklahoma Press, 1993 & 1997. First Edition. Cloth. Bernardino De Sahagun. Two volumes. Faded purple cloth boards on front with blue quarter cloth binding and blue cloth on back cover. Gold title stamping and warrior on cover. Purple end papers. Full color facsimile of Primeros Memoriales (Codice Matritense del Real Palacio). Primeros Memoriales: Paleography of Nahuatl Text and English Translation Volume 2 Fray Bernardino de Sahagun University of Oklahoma Press 1997 First edition Hardcover; cloth boards 334 pages, slight rubbing to edges. The Primeros Memoriales represents an earlier stage in Sahagún's work and is closer to native pictorial traditions in that it maintains the primacy of the visual image over the text. The images were drawn before the text was copied and are more true to the Pre-Colombian canon.