Program

Research Programs: Translations

Period of Performance

4/1/1979 - 10/31/1980

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$9,942.00 (approved)
$9,942.00 (awarded)


The Codex Cantares Mexicanos: A Critical Edition and Translation of 16th-century Aztec Songs

FAIN: RL-041279-79

John Bierhorst
Unaffiliated independent scholar

To translate and 16th century manuscript, CANTARES MEXICANOS, which preserves in classical Nahuatl 169 pages of the poetry and theater of pre-Conquest Mixico. The CANTARES MEXICANOS is the primary source for Aztec poetry.