| Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 426 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps |
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Mesoamerican worlds |
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Mesoamerican worlds.
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| Contents |
Research methodologies and new approaches to interpreting the Madrid Codex / Gabrielle Vail and Anthony Aveni -- The paper patch on page 56 of the Madrid Codex / Harvey M. Bricker -- Papal bulls, extirpators, and the Madrid Codex: the content and probable provenience of the M. 56 patch / John F. Chuchiak -- Tayasal origin of the Madrid Codex: further consideration of the theory / Merideth Paxton -- Maya calendars and dates: interpreting the calendrical structure of Maya almanacs / Gabrielle Vail and Anthony Aveni -- Intervallic structure and cognate almanacs in the Madrid and Dresden Codices / Anthony Aveni -- Haab dates in the Madrid Codex / Gabrielle Vail and Victoria R. Bricker -- A reinterpretation of Tzolk'in almanacs in the Madrid Codex / Gabrielle Vail -- In extenso almanacs in the Madrid Codex / Bryan R. Just -- The inauguration of planting in the Borgia and Madrid Codices / Christine Hernández and Victoria R. Bricker -- 'Yearbearer pages' and their connection to planting almanacs in the Borgia Codex / Christine Hernández -- Screenfold manuscripts of highland Mexico and their possible influence on Codex Madrid: a summary / John M.D. Pohl |
| Summary |
Annotation This volume offers new calendrical models and methodologies for reading, dating, and interpreting the general significance of the Madrid Codex. The longest of the surviving Maya codices, this manuscript includes texts and images painted by scribes conversant in Maya hieroglyphic writing, a written means of communication practiced by Maya elites from the second to the fifteenth centuries A.D. Some scholars have recently argued that the Madrid Codex originated in the Peten region of Guatemala and postdates European contact. The contributors to this volume challenge that view by demonstrating convincingly that it originated in northern Yucatan and was painted in the Pre-Columbian era. In addition, several contributors reveal provocative connections among the Madrid and Borgia group of codices from Central Mexico |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Codex Tro-Cortesianus
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Codex Borgianus. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82066969
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Codex Dresdensis Maya. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50077377
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Codex Borgianus fast |
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Codex Dresdensis Maya fast |
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Codex Tro-Cortesianus fast |
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Codex Tro-Cortesianus gnd |
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Manuscripts, Maya -- History
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Maya calendar.
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Mayas -- Agriculture
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Handmade paper -- Analysis
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HISTORY.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Manuscripts, Maya
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Maya calendar
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Mayas -- Agriculture
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Vail, Gabrielle
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Aveni, Anthony F.
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| LC no. |
2004013637 |
| ISBN |
0870818619 |
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9780870818615 |
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0870817868 |
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9780870817861 |
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