In 2016, the Getty Research Institute (GRI) initiated a major collaborative project with the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence to transform the Florentine Codex into an enhanced digital critical edition. The Digital Florentine Codex (DFC), launched in October of 2023, presents the newly digitized codex alongside its bilingual transcriptions and translations. Both the texts and images are searchable, achieved by tagging images with multilingual keywords drawn from the manuscript's unique linguistic content. One of the co-founders of the DFC initiative will outline the website's design, content and capabilities and highlight a few of the breakthroughs it has made in our understanding of the codex.

Speaker

Professor Kevin Terraciano

Sponsor(s): Latin American Institute, Center for Mexican American Studies at UTA