The Madrid Codex: New Approaches to Understanding an Ancient Maya Manuscript (Mesoamerican Worlds Series)
Anthony F. Aveni
ISBN 10: 0870817868 ISBN 13: 9780870817861
Published by University of Colorado Press, 2004
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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.
About the Author: Gabrielle Vail is a research scholar at New College of Florida and a specialist in Maya hieroglyphic writing. She is the co-editor of Papers on the Madrid Codex (with Victoria Bricker). Anthony Aveni is the Russell B. Colgate Professor of Astronomy and Anthropology at Colgate University. He is the author of Empires of Time, Conversing With the Planets, and Behind the Crystal Ball (UPC).
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Title: The Madrid Codex: New Approaches to ...
Publisher: University of Colorado Press
Publication Date: 2004
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
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