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Extensive book burning by the Inquisition in New Spain in the sixteenth century (see Fig. 2.3) destroyed much contemporary information about Aztec plants. However, detailed images and text of Aztec plants survive from a number of contemporary resources (Table 5.1):
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Tucker, A.O., Janick, J. (2019). Aztec Plants in 16th Century New World and European Herbals. In: Flora of the Voynich Codex. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19377-5_5
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