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The analysis of the pictorial content of the veintena section of Fray Bernardino de Sahagún’s Primeros Memoriales may lead to new conclusions about the artists and the process of creating these illustrations. Comparing the illustrations with the description of the festivals in the Primeros Memoriales and the Florentine Codex, identification of scenes and persons and their attributes depicted in the illustrations may also shed interesting light on the affiliation of the manuscript, whose provenance is still under discussion.

By examining the pictorial content of the veintena section of the Primeros Memoriales, the manusctipt compiled by fray Bernardino de Sahagún, I identify new pieces of evidence on the origin of these illustrations and their authors. A carefull analisis of this material suggests that it is strongly embedded in the pre-Hispanic tradition and that it is doubtful that their iconographic sources originated in Tepeopolco, as it is widely believed. El objetivo de este trabajo es el análisis del contenido pictórico de la sección de las veintenas de los Primeros Memoriales, un manuscrito de fray Bernardino de Sahagún, para ver si a través del mismo es posible obtener nuevos datos sobre el origen de esas ilustraciones, así como de sus autores. El análisis cuidadoso de este material sugiere que su procedencia es prehispánica, y que no es cierto que las imágenes originales proporcionadas a Sahagún durante la creación del manuscrito procedieran de Tepepolco, tal como se consideraba hasta ahora.