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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451785203321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder, Colorado : , : University Press of Colorado, , 2009

©2004

ISBN

0-87081-861-9

Edizione

[First paperback edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (469 p.)

Collana

Mesoamerican Worlds : From the Olmecs to the Danzantes

Disciplina

972.81/016

Soggetti

Manuscripts, Maya - History

Maya calendar

Mayas - Agriculture

Handmade paper - Analysis

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Abbreviations; 1: Research Methodologies and New Approaches to Interpreting the Madrid Codex; Part 1: Provenience and Dating of the Madrid Codex; 2: The Paper Patch on Page 56 of the Madrid Codex; 3: Papal Bulls, Extirpators, and the Madrid Codex; 4: Tayasal Origin of the Madrid Codex; Part 2: Calendrical Models and Methodologies for Examining the Madrid Almanacs; 5: Maya Calendars and Dates; 6: Intervallic Structure and Cognate Almanacs in the Madrid and Dresden Codices; 7: Haab Dates in the Madrid Codex

8: A Reinterpretation of Tzolk'in Almanacs in the Madrid CodexPart 3: Connections Among the Madrid and Borgia Group Codices; 9: In Extenso Almanacs in the Madrid Codex; 10: The Inauguration of Planting in the Borgia and Madrid Codices; 11: "Yearbearer Pages" and Their Connection to Planting Almanacs in the Borgia Codex; Part 5: Overview: The Madrid Codex in theContext of Mesoamerican Traditions; 12: Screenfold Manuscripts of Highland Mexico and Their Possible Influence on Codex Madrid; Index