Program

Research Programs: Translations

Period of Performance

4/1/1979 - 10/31/1980

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$12,292.00 (approved)
$12,292.00 (awarded)


Codex Cantares Mexicanos: Crit. ED. & Translation of 16th Century Aztec Songs

FAIN: RL-*0412-79

John Bierhorst
Unaffiliated independent scholar

To translate and transcribe the 16th century manuscript, "Cantares Mexicanos," which preserves in classical Nahuatl (the language of the Aztecs) 169 pages of the poetry and theater of pre-conquest Mexico.