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

• Pubblicazione: Boulder, Colorado : , : University Press of Colorado, , 2009; ©2004
• Edizione: First paperback edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (469 p.)
• Disciplina: 972.81/016
• Soggetto topico: Manuscripts, Maya - History; Maya calendar; Mayas - Agriculture; Handmade paper - Analysis
• Persona (resp. second.): VailGabrielle; AveniAnthony F.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The Madrid Codex
• ISBN: 0-87081-861-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810110503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Mesoamerican worlds.