The director of the Biblioteca Nacional de España presents to the director of the Biblioteca Nacional de México, Mª Andrea Giovine, the facsimile of the Códice Durán published by the BNE together with the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).
It is the facsimile edition of the Historia de las Indias de Nueva España e islas de Tierra Firme, by the Dominican friar Diego Durán, by whose name it is known.
The codex constitutes a unique testimony for the understanding of the socioeconomic, political and religious organization of Mexico. The narrative spans from the origin of the peoples who constituted the Mexican nation, through their migration and settlement, to the arrival of Hernán Cortés and the first years of colonization.
This act is meant to represent a gesture of closeness between Mexico and Spain and to show the joint effort to preserve and disseminate their mutual cultural and documentary heritage.