The Paris Codex (The Maya Codices) - Softcover

Daniel Castellanos Magaña

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1717419437 ISBN 13: 9781717419439

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018

Synopsis

Full-Color edition of The Paris Codex, Latin Codex Peresianus, one of the very few texts of the pre-Conquest Maya known to have survived the book burnings by the Spanish clergy during the 16th century. It was discovered in 1859 in an obscure corner of the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. The document is very poorly preserved and has suffered considerable damage to the page edges, resulting in the loss of some of the text. The codex is devoted almost entirely to Mayan ritual and ceremony. Largely relates to a cycle of thirteen 20-year k'atuns and includes details of Maya astronomical signs. The Paris Codex is currently held at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, in the Département des Manuscrits, catalogued as Mexicain 386

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1717419437
• ISBN 13: 9781717419439
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 38