Home | Hall 1 | 2
| 3 | 4 | 5
| 6 | 7 | 8
|Supplementary Pages | Dictionary
Fray Bernardino de Ribera (Sahagún)
Fray Bernardino de Ribera (Sahagún).
Spanish missionary of the Franciscan order, born in Sahagún around
the year 1499. Eight years after the fall of Tenochtitlan, Fray Bernardino
arrived in New Spain, where he founded and worked in several convents and
colleges in different towns. Tlatelolco, Tepeapulco and Mexico City, he
gathers invaluable information from Nahua elders who came to be known as
Sahagún's informants. This information would serve as the basis
for his magnum opus called the Historia General de las Cosas de la Nueva
España (General History of the Things of New Spain). Other collections
of documents in Nahuatl may be found partially in the Florentine Codex
and the Codex Matritense. Modern editions, all of them fragmentary, make
evident the enormous labor of the friar to make known the customs and history
of the ancient Mexicans: Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún. Relación
de los textos que no aprovechó en su obra (1953), Ritos, sacerdotes
y atavíos de los dioses (1958), Veinte himnos sacros de los nahuas
(1958) and Vida económica de Tenochtitlan (1961).
Last
Modified: January 14, 1998.
Museo del Templo Mayor, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e História,
México.
Seminario #8, Centro Histórico. Cuauhtémoc,
México, D.F. 06060
©Copyright
1997
Send comment to: Lourdes Cue
