In this Book
- The Madrid Codex: New Approaches to Understanding an Ancient Maya Manuscript
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: University Press of Colorado
- Series: Mesoamerican Worlds Series
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 Petén region of Guatemala and postdates European contact. The contributors to this volume challenge that view by demonstrating convincingly that it originated in northern Yucatán 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.
Contributors include: Harvey M. Bricker, Victoria R. Bricker, John F. Chuchiak IV, Christine L. Hernández, Bryan R. Just, Merideth Paxton, and John Pohl. Additional support for this publication was generously provided by the Eugene M. Kayden Fund at the University of Colorado.
Table of Contents
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- Illustrations
- pp. ix-xvi
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xxiii-xxiv
- Contributors
- pp. xxv-xxvi
- Abbreviations
- p. xxvii
- Part 1: Provenience and Dating ofthe Madrid Codex
- Part 2: Calendrical Models and Methodologies for Examining the Madrid Almanacs
- Chapter 5: Maya Calendars and Dates
- pp. 131-146
- Chapter 7: Haab Dates in the Madrid Codex
- pp. 171-214
- Part 3: Connections Among the Madrid and Borgia Group Codices
- Part 5: Overview: The Madrid Codex in the Context of Mesoamerican Traditions
Additional Information
ISBN
9780870818615
Related ISBN(s)
9780870817861, 9780870819391
MARC Record
OCLC
651746792
Pages
468
Launched on MUSE
2011-07-21
Language
English
Open Access
No