Axolotl, ink and paint on parchment, unknown artist, included in the Florentine Codex by Bernardino de Sahagún, Mexico, 1577.
An axolotl, which was described by the accompanying Spanish textual gloss as a meal fit for the nobility. Described by the accompanying Nahuatl textual gloss as savory. Both of the texts describe the axolotl's anatomy as being lizard-like, with a tail, a large mouth, and with characteristic appendages on the necks.
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence.
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