Welcome to this site
Thanks for visiting!
For information about why I started this site, please visit the About page.
My background is the visual arts and art history and I investigated the Florentine Codex on the basis of methods and materials of its making. I published my results in 2002 in the form of an MA Thesis at Arizona State University, a comparison of the working methods and materials of the Florentine Codex and the Codex Borgia, which I also had the chance to study. I have rewritten that thesis and hope to publish it as an article.
I will be putting the information from my analysis on this website, as well as later data on watermarks and their distribution in the Florentine Codex. It is my hope that others will want to contribute, either in providing transcriptions and translations of the text or in other ways, and that this site will eventually become a virtual Florentine Codex, with high quality scans of the manuscript pages themselves, incorporated with translations and transcriptions as well as analyses of the illustrations found within it. All hyperlinked, of course.
If you are interested in contributing and/or collaborating, please email me at florentinecodex (at) gmail.com.
Thanks,
Michael