The Madrid Codex New Approaches to Understanding an Ancient Maya Manuscript |
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| Editor:
| Vail, Gabrielle
Aveni, Anthony |
| Series title: | Mesoamerican Worlds Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-87081-939-1 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2009 |
| Publisher: | University Press of Colorado
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $38.95 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.