Credits

DEDICATION

The Digital Florentine Codex is dedicated to the memory of these great scholars who inspire us and upon whose work this digital edition builds:

Arthur J. O. Anderson

Charles E. Dibble

Josefina García Quintana

Alfredo López Austin

James Lockhart

We also dedicate this work to our colleague, Murtha Baca, who first believed in the vision of the Digital Florentine Codex.

CREDITS

Institutional Partners and Collaborators

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana

The Seaver Institute

The UCLA Latin American Institute

The University of Utah Press

Project Team

Sponsor

Mary Miller, Getty Research Institute

Principal Investigator

Kim Richter, Getty Research Institute

Project Co-Heads

Diana Magaloni

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Jeanette Favrot Peterson, University of California, Santa Barbara

Kim Richter, Getty Research Institute

Kevin Terraciano, University of California, Los Angeles

Project Manager

Alicia Maria Houtrouw, Getty Research Institute

Research Team

Mary Clarke, Getty Research Institute

Rebecca Dufendach, Getty Research Institute

Bérénice Gaillemin, Getty Research Institute

León García Garagarza, Getty Research Institute

Alanna Radlo-Dzur, Getty Research Institute

Research Consultants

Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia

Eduardo de la Cruz Cruz, Instituto de Docencia e Investigación Etnológica de Zacatecas

Sabina Cruz de la Cruz, Instituto de Docencia e Investigación Etnológica de Zacatecas

María Susana Xelhuantzi López, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia

Sandra Xochipiltecatl, Riverside Community College District

Collaborating Scholars

Manuel Aguilar Moreno, California State University, Los Angeles

Berenice Alcántara Rojas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Baltazar Brito Guadarrama, Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia

Federico Navarrete, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Lisa Sousa, Occidental College

Component Advisors

Greg Albers, Getty Publications

Michele Ciaccio, Getty Research Institute Publications

Nathaniel Deines, Getty Digital

Patricia Harpring, Getty Vocabularies

David Newbury, Getty Digital

Lily Pregill, Getty Digital

Emily Pugh, Getty Research Institute

Nancy Um, Getty Research Institute

Khristaan Villela, Getty Research Institute

Communications and Web

Megan Newcomb, Getty Research Institute

Alexandria Sivak, Getty Trust

Anya Ventura, Getty Research Institute

Kirsten Lew, Getty Research Institute

Administrative Support

Susan Baldocchi, Getty Research Institute

Susan Colangelo, Getty Research Institute

Theresa Marino, Getty Research Institute

Contractors

John Baker, Digirati

Sophie Baker, Visual Designer

Catherine Bell, User Experience Designer

Tom Crane, Digirati

Stephen Fraser, Digirati

Heather Kerrigan, Digirati

Diego Lago, Digirati

Ahree Lee, User Experience Researcher

Finlay McCourt, Digirati

Matt McGrattan, Digirati

Amyrose McCue Gill, TextFormations

Alex Nogues, Digirati

Sarah O'Sullivan, Digirati

Lisa Regan, TextFormations

Stuart Sperling, Sound Engineer

Ken Worthley, iSolutions

Getty Research Institute Interns

Michelle Aranda Cos, Getty Marrow Undergraduate Intern, Summer 2019

Allison Caplan, Graduate Intern, 2015–16

Joshua Fitzgerald, Graduate Intern, 2019–20

Dulce Hernandez, Getty Marrow Undergraduate Intern, Summer 2020

Henna Khanom, Graduate Intern, 2023–24

Francisco Lopez-Huerta, Getty Marrow Undergraduate Intern, Summer 2018

Hande Lara Sever, Graduate Intern, 2017–18

Bárbara Romero-Ferrón, Graduate Intern, 2022–23

Elijah Zavala, Year Up Undergraduate Intern, 2020

Former Team Members

Martha Alfaro, Getty Research Institute

Dulcinea Cano, Getty Research Institute

Annie Combs-Brookes, Getty Research Institute

Anne Helmreich, Getty Research Institute

Amy Hood, Getty Trust Communications

Abigail Robertson, Getty Research Institute

Emma Turner-Trujillo, Getty Research Institute

Robert Sanderson, Getty Digital

Lela Urquhart, Getty Research Institute

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We express our deepest gratitude to colleagues, friends, and organizations across the globe for their support along the way. They opened doors in countless ways, including by lending expertise, granting permission to reproduce texts, and supporting our research.

Asociación Hispánica de Historiadores del Papel

María del Carmen Hidalgo Brinquis

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana

Eugenia Antonucci

Francesca Gallori

Ida Giovanna Rao

Anna Rita Fantoni

Silvia Scipioni

Biblioteca Nacional de España

María José Rucio Zamoran

British Museum

Jago Cooper

Danny Zborover

Honorary Consulate of Mexico in Florence

Ruby E. Villarreal

Consulate General of Mexico in Los Angeles

Fabiola García Rubio

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze

David Speranzi

Instituto Nacional del Derecho de Autor (INDAUTOR), Mexico City

Marco Antonio Morales Montes

Museo de América, Madrid

Ana Azor Lacasta

Rocio Bruquetas

María Concepción García Sáiz

Andrés Gutiérrez Usillos

Ana Zabía de la Mata

Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid

Feliciano Barrios Pintado

María del Pilar Cuesta Domingo

María del Carmen Iglesias Cano, condesa de Gisbert

Miguel Ángel Ladero Quesada

Jaime Olmedo Ramos

Real Biblioteca del Palacio Real de Madrid

María Luisa López-Vidriero Abelló

Valentín Moreno Gallego

University of Glasgow

Julie Gardham

University of Oregon

Stephanie Wood

University of Utah

Glenda Cotter

Claudio A. Holzner

Rebecca Horn

Friends of the Project

Miruna Achim

Marisa Álvarez Icaza Longoria

Agnieszka Brylak

Alyce De Carteret

Danièle Dehouve

Thomas W. Gaehtgens

Élodie Dupey García

Miguel Ángel Gasca Gómez

Alex Hidalgo

Anne Kraume

Jackeline Lopez

Leonardo López Luján

Kirsten Mahlke

Elena Mazzetto

Sylvie Peperstraete

Román Alvar Sánchez García y familia

Victoria Seaver

Aurora van Zoelen Cortés

Loïc Vauzelle

Lu Coy

Yolanda Delgado Garcia

Chris Garcia

Alegria Garcia

Adolfo Guzman-Lopez

Marc Eisinger

Tomas Filsinger

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