A Codicological Survey of the Codex Borgia and the Florentine Codex

A physical-evidence dataset and written analysis, thesis and essay of the Codex Borgia and the Florentine Codex - materials and techniques in the production of the Codex Borgia, and materials and techniques in the production of the Florentine Codex Vol. II and the continuation of indigenous techniques from prior to the conquest of Mexico to afterwards as well as an argument for the concepts behind the post-conquest illistrations.
A codological recording of watermark distribution in all volumes of the Florentine Codex.
Codex Borgia (Vatican Apostolic Library, Borgiana Messicana 1) and the Florentine Codex (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Med. Palat. 218–220).
Developed from primary research on both.
M.A. thesis Style and Time in a Sixteenth-Century Mexican Manuscript: An Analysis of the Illustrations in Volume II of the Florentine Codex (Art History, Arizona State University, August 2002; committee: Emily Umberger [chair], Nancy Serwint, Nora Taylor).
Essay on the production of the Codex Borgia published in Phoebus: A Journal of Art History, Number Eleven (2022), The Classroom as Home: A Festschrift in Honor of Anthony Lacy Gully (1938–2021),"The Black and the Red: A Physical Description of the Codex Borgia".
I would like to thank:
My thesis committee: Dr. Emily Umberger (chair), Dr. Nancy Serwint, Dr. Nora Taylor
My colleagies from the ASU Italy Summer Program: Dr. Anthony Gully, Dr. Pier Baldini, Dr. Chiara Martello-Lage
My colleagues whom I met in Italy:Dr. Antonio Perri, Dr. Roberta Carinci
and the staffs of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana and Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana.
Dr. Claudia Brown, ASU, who I have worked with for many years and whose encouragement and support has helped move this and other projects forward.
And, last but not least, despite them not being there when I did the research, my sons, Ian, Colin and PIerce.
This project was produced from original research. I used an Android phone and a scanning app to scan and Claude to perform text recognition and produce all JSON and other code-based files. I did not use AI for any research or writing, other than that which is associated with the file/JSON creation.