The Madrid Codex : new approaches to understanding an ancient Maya manuscript / edited by Gabrielle Vail and Anthony Aveni.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vail, Gabrielle.

Aveni, Anthony F.

Series:

Mesoamerican worlds

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Codex Tro-Cortesianus.

Codex Borgianus.

Codex Dresdensis Maya.

Manuscripts, Maya--History.

Manuscripts, Maya.

Maya calendar.

Mayas--Agriculture.

Mayas.

Handmade paper--Analysis.

Handmade paper.

History.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 426 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, [2004]

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0870817868

OCLC:

55644579