Childbirth, midwifery and care of the new born infant. Lithograph by G. Lopéz (?) after Fray B. de Sahagún.

[Madrid?] : Francisco del Paso y Troncaso, 1892-1916 (Firenze [Florence] : A. Ruffoni)

1 print : lithograph

Historia de las cosas de nueva españa. Vol. II. (Códice florentino). Sahagún. Bears numbers : Lám XL. Libro VI. (ns. 23-33)

Wellcome Collection 21500i

N. Foreman, Iconographic Collections, Wellcome Institute, "Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, a Franciscan friar, arrived in Mexico in 1529. In collaboration with the Aztecs, he learned their language, Náhuatl, and compiled a vast body of information, concerning Aztec lore, belief and observation of the natural world. ... The original manuscript has been in the Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana in Florence since the 1790's and is the preeminent source for the study of Aztec life at the time of the Conquest."