[HN Gopher] Codex documenting Aztec culture now digitized
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       Codex documenting Aztec culture now digitized
        
       Author : diodorus
       Score  : 68 points
       Date   : 2023-11-11 01:13 UTC (21 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (hyperallergic.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (hyperallergic.com)
        
       | getwiththeprog wrote:
       | Links back to https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/
        
       | kzrdude wrote:
       | alternate pop sci news item for this
       | https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/digital-florentine-cod...
        
       | ftyers wrote:
       | The sad thing is that there isn't really anything new here. It's
       | the Anderson and Dibble translation, and some random extra stuff.
       | For 15 years work it's quite a limited contribution. In addition,
       | it's not freely licensed. I'm working on a free/open-source
       | licensed edition with linguistic annotation. If anyone is
       | interested, ask for the link, it's on GitHub.
        
         | belugacat wrote:
         | Link?
        
           | ftyers wrote:
           | Here is an example of what were producing so far for book 5
           | "the omens": https://github.com/ftyers/UD_Classical_Nahuatl-
           | FloCo/blob/ma...
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           | The repo is kind of messy, it's mostly me and some students
           | working on it, but we're pretty passionate. Let me know if
           | you'd like to get involved! :)
        
             | ftyers wrote:
             | Note that the annotation is alignable with images of the
             | original manuscript, which are online at the Library of
             | Congress. I.e. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667850/
             | 
             | The [orig] contains all the original token and line breaks.
        
         | asimpletune wrote:
         | Isn't it also the "Garcia Garagarza" Spanish-English
         | translation? Or is that what you mean by some extra stuff.
        
           | ftyers wrote:
           | Yeah, that's what I mean, e.g. it's mostly existing published
           | stuff. The new stuff is some partial summarisation in Eastern
           | Huasteca Nahuatl, and some spoken audio (by EHN speakers),
           | although, it's unclear what the audio gains. Without
           | training, it's not really intelligible to most speakers of
           | modern varieties.
        
         | ftyers wrote:
         | It's also available online at UNAM, https://temoa.iib.unam.mx/
         | along with a lot of other texts (see pages beginning with CF
         | "Codice Florentino"), e.g. https://temoa.iib.unam.mx/cf_05_v
        
       | tastyfreeze wrote:
       | It makes me very happy to see ancient texts digitized for the
       | world to see.
       | 
       | If only the Spaniards hadn't burned every codex they could get
       | their hands on. There are 12 surviving pre-contact Aztec codexes.
       | The Aztecs produced 480000 sheets of paper annually. That amounts
       | to heaps of records and knowledge that was destroyed.
        
         | ftyers wrote:
         | True, but it's also interesting to see what survived. My wife
         | is a Nahuatl speaker, and some of the stuff in the book on
         | Omens is still part of the culture, e.g. About owls being a
         | sign of death.
        
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